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@ PROVERBS - This book is a compendium of proverb collections. Although Solomon inspired the development of the book, its entire content did not derive from him. A proverb is a short, pithy saying with practical implications. The ones included here cover a variety of subjects, for example, chastity, control of the tongue, laziness, knowledge, relations with others, justice. Perhaps above everything else in Proverbs there is the reiterated assertion that the source of true wisdom is "the fear of the Lord".

BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@Jonah:1

@ JONAH - The Old Testament counterpart of kjv@John:3:16, this book declares the universality of God’s love embracing even pagan nations. Its authorship and historicity are disputed. If one is willing to accept the miraculous, there is no compelling reason to deny its historicity. There is a strong possibility that the book is about Jonah and not by him. The author relates how Jonah refused God’s call to preach to the people of Nineveh, his punishment for this disobedience, his ready response to a second summons, and his bitter complaint at God’s sparing the city following her repentance. Christ Himself alludes to Jonah when speaking of His own death and Resurrection ( kjv@Matthew:12:39, kjv@Matthew:16:4; kjv@Luke:11:29-32 ).

BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@Philemon:1

@ PHILEMON - This shortest of all Paul’s letters was addressed to Philemon (although two other persons are included in the salutation). Paul entreats Philemon, the master of Onesimus, a runaway slave, to receive him back as a brother in Christ ( kjv@Philemon:1:16-17 ). This very personal letter reveals not only the concern of the Apostle for a converted slave but also a practical demonstration of brotherhood in Christ, "where there is neither bond (slave) nor free". ( kjv@Galatians:3:28 )

BIBLEBOOKSUMMARY.txt
Found: strkjv@1Peter:1

@ 1PETER - The author describes himself as "Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ", and there is no overriding reason to doubt the truth of his claim, although the beautiful Greek style employed has led some scholars to believe that the actual writing may have been done by an associate (probably a secretary). The contents breathe the spirit of Peter. His speeches recorded in Acts indicate a similar attitude toward persecution and suffering. The letter here reflects a time of suffering and trial. No doubt the widespread persecution of the Christians by the Roman authorities was the occasion of the "fiery trial" ( kjv@1Peter:4:12 ). The writer admonishes his readers to a life of purity, of godly living, and exhorts them to steadfastness and faithfulness.

DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: JANUARY6 PM @ The apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him all things they had done.-strkjv@Mark:6:30 strkjv@Proverbs:18:24. strkjv@Exodus:33:11. strkjv@John:15:14-15 strkjv@Luke:17:10 strkjv@Romans:8:15 strkjv@Philippians:4:6. strkjv@Proverbs:15:8.

DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: JANUARY27 PM @ I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life.-strkjv@Deuteronomy:30:19 strkjv@Ezekiel:18:32 strkjv@John:15:22 strkjv@Luke:12:47 strkjv@Romans:6:23. strkjv@John:3:36 strkjv@Romans:6:16 strkjv@John:12:26.

DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: JANUARY28 PM @ Awake, O north wind, and . . . blow upon my garden, that the the spices thereof may flow out.-strkjv@Songs:4:16. strkjv@Hebrews:12:11. strkjv@Galatians:5:22 strkjv@Isaiah:27:8 strkjv@Psalms:103:13 strkjv@2Corinthians:4:16-18 strkjv@Hebrews:5:8. strkjv@Hebrews:4:15.

DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: FEBRUARY10 AM @ The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single thy whole body also is full of light.-strkjv@Luke:11:34 strkjv@1Corinthians:2:14. strkjv@Psalms:119:18 strkjv@John:8:12. strkjv@2Corinthians:3:18. strkjv@2Corinthians:4:6 strkjv@Ephesians:1:17-18.

DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: MARCH2 PM @ There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.-strkjv@Hebrews:4:9 strkjv@Job:3:17-18 strkjv@Revelation:14:13 strkjv@John:11:11-13 strkjv@2Corinthians:5:4. strkjv@Romans:8:23-25.

DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: APRIL11 AM @ In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.-strkjv@Proverbs:10:19 strkjv@James:1:19. strkjv@Proverbs:16:32. strkjv@James:3:2. strkjv@Matthew:12:37. strkjv@Psalms:141:3 strkjv@1Peter:2:21-23. strkjv@Hebrews:12:3 strkjv@Revelation:14:5.

DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: APRIL13 PM @ There shall be no night there.-strkjv@Revelation:21:25 strkjv@Isaiah:60:19 strkjv@Revelation:21:23. strkjv@Revelation:22:5 strkjv@1Peter:2:9. strkjv@Colossians:1:12-13. strkjv@Ephesians:5:8 strkjv@1Thessalonians:5:5 strkjv@Proverbs:4:18.

DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: MAY1 PM @ Jehovah-shammah (The Lord is there.)-strkjv@Ezekiel:48:35 strkjv@Revelation:21:3 strkjv@Revelation:21:22-23 strkjv@Psalms:17:15. strkjv@Psalms:73:25 strkjv@Joel:3:20-21. strkjv@Zechariah:2:10. strkjv@Revelation:22:3.

DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: MAY15 AM @ God shall wipe away all tears: . . . there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, . . . for the former things are passed away.-strkjv@Revelation:21:4 strkjv@Isaiah:25:8. strkjv@Isaiah:60:20. strkjv@Isaiah:33:24. strkjv@Isaiah:65:19. strkjv@Isaiah:35:10 strkjv@Hosea:13:14. strkjv@1Corinthians:15:26 strkjv@1Corinthians:15:54 strkjv@2Corinthians:4:18.

DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: MAY26 PM @ The city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.-strkjv@Revelation:21:23 strkjv@Acts:26:13-15. strkjv@Matthew:17:1-2. strkjv@Isaiah:60:19-20 strkjv@1Peter:5:10.

DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: JUNE10 AM @ The younger son took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.-strkjv@Luke:15:13. strkjv@1Corinthians:6:11. strkjv@Ephesians:2:3-6 strkjv@1John:4:10 strkjv@Romans:5:8-10.

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Found: JUNE18 AM @ Thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark, and there I will meet with thee.-strkjv@Exodus:25:21-22. strkjv@Hebrews:9:8. strkjv@Matthew:27:50-51 strkjv@Hebrews:10:19-20-22. strkjv@Hebrews:4:16 strkjv@Romans:3:24-25. strkjv@Ephesians:2:18.

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Found: JUNE30 PM @ God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.-strkjv@Ecclesiastes:5:2 strkjv@Matthew:6:7-8. strkjv@1Kings:18:26 strkjv@Luke:18:10-11-13-14 strkjv@Luke:11:1.

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Found: JULY2 AM @ This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof.-strkjv@Exodus:12:43 strkjv@Hebrews:13:10. strkjv@John:3:3. strkjv@Ephesians:2:12-13 strkjv@Ephesians:2:14-15 strkjv@Ephesians:2:19 strkjv@Revelation:3:20.

DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: JULY21 AM @ What profit is there of circumcision?-strkjv@Romans:3:1 strkjv@Romans:3:2. strkjv@Jeremiah:4:4. strkjv@Leviticus:26:41-42 strkjv@Romans:15:8. strkjv@Colossians:2:11. strkjv@Colossians:2:13 strkjv@Ephesians:4:22-24.

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Found: AUGUST6 PM @ The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.-strkjv@Psalms:24:1 strkjv@Hosea:2:8-9 strkjv@1Chronicles:29:14-16. strkjv@Romans:11:36. strkjv@1Timothy:. kjv@6:17. - strkjv@1Timothy:. 4:4-5 strkjv@Philippians:4:19.

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Found: AUGUST9 AM @ Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.-strkjv@Songs:4:7. strkjv@Isaiah:1:5-6. strkjv@Isaiah:64:6. strkjv@Romans:7:18 strkjv@1Corinthians:6:11. strkjv@Psalms:45:13. strkjv@Ezekiel:16:14 strkjv@Psalms:90:17 strkjv@Revelation:7:14. strkjv@Ephesians:5:27. strkjv@Colossians:2:10.

DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: AUGUST18 AM @ What God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?-strkjv@Deuteronomy:3:24 strkjv@Psalms:89:6-8. strkjv@Psalms:86:8. strkjv@2Samuel:7:21-22 strkjv@1Corinthians:2:9-10. strkjv@Deuteronomy:29:29.

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Found: AUGUST21 PM @ There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.-strkjv@Proverbs:14:12 strkjv@Proverbs:28:26 strkjv@Psalms:119:105. strkjv@Psalms:17:4 strkjv@Deuteronomy:13:1-4 strkjv@Psalms:32:8.

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Found: AUGUST23 AM @ I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.-strkjv@Jeremiah:31:3 strkjv@2Thessalonians:2:13-14. strkjv@2Timothy:1:9. strkjv@Psalms:139:16 strkjv@John:3:16 strkjv@1John:4:10.

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Found: SEPTEMBER3 AM @ Neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.-strkjv@Exodus:13:7 strkjv@Proverbs:8:13. strkjv@Romans:12:9. strkjv@1Thessalonians:5:22. strkjv@Hebrews:12:15 strkjv@Psalms:66:18 strkjv@1Corinthians:5:6-8. strkjv@1Corinthians:11:28 strkjv@2Timothy:2:19. strkjv@Hebrews:7:26. strkjv@1John:3:5.

DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: OCTOBER18 AM @ One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.-strkjv@John:19:34 strkjv@Exodus:24:8. strkjv@Leviticus:17:11. strkjv@Hebrews:10:4 strkjv@Mark:14:24. strkjv@Hebrews:9:12. strkjv@Colossians:1:20 strkjv@1Peter:1:18-20 strkjv@Ezekiel:36:25. strkjv@Hebrews:10:22.

DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: OCTOBER24 PM @ When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them.-strkjv@Isaiah:41:17 strkjv@Psalms:4:6. strkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:22-23 strkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:17. strkjv@Jeremiah:2:13 strkjv@John:6:37. strkjv@Isaiah:44:3. strkjv@Matthew:5:6 strkjv@Psalms:63:1.

DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: OCTOBER28 AM @ He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him.-strkjv@Isaiah:59:16 strkjv@Psalms:40:6-8. strkjv@John:10:17-18 strkjv@Isaiah:45:21-22. strkjv@Acts:4:12 strkjv@2Corinthians:8:9.

DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: NOVEMBER3 AM @ The ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.-strkjv@Hosea:14:9 strkjv@1Peter:2:7-8. strkjv@Proverbs:10:29 strkjv@Matthew:11:15. strkjv@Psalms:107:43. strkjv@Matthew:6:22. strkjv@John:7:17. strkjv@Matthew:13:12 strkjv@John:8:47. strkjv@John:5:40. strkjv@John:10:27.

DAILYLIGHT.txt
Found: NOVEMBER22 PM @ There is a hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.-strkjv@Job:14:7 strkjv@Isaiah:42:3. strkjv@Psalms:23:3 strkjv@2Corinthians:7:10. strkjv@Hebrews:12:11 strkjv@Psalms:119:67. strkjv@Ezra:9:13 strkjv@Micah:7:8-9.

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Found: DECEMBER19 AM @ Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness.-strkjv@Psalms:112:4. strkjv@Isaiah:50:10. strkjv@Psalms:37:24. strkjv@Proverbs:6:23 strkjv@Micah:7:8-9 strkjv@Matthew:6:22-23.

SHEPHERDPUPLINUXIMG.txt
Found: http://shepherdpuplinux.us/img/BIP/Bible41Mar11_20-23.jpg @kjv@Mark:11:20-23 - The Fig Tree Withered

BIBLETHINGS.txt
Found: strkjv@Proverbs:25:11 @ Apple (Malus domestica.) [Heb., tap·pu?ach]. Arabic is tuffah. To change a p to Letter f in Hebrew there's a dot changed The word itself indicates that which is distinguished by its fragrance, or scent. It comes from the root na·phach?, meaning "blow; pant; struggle for breath." (Genesis:2:7; kjv@Job:31:39; kjv@Jeremiah:15:9) Regarding this, M. C. Fisher wrote: "Relationship [to na·phach?] seems at first semantically strained, but the ideas of ‘breathe’ and ‘exhale an odor’ are related. The by-form puah means both ‘blow’ (of wind) and ‘exhale a pleasant odor, be fragrant.’"- - BiblePlants

BIBLETHINGS.txt
Found: strkjv@Genesis:41:22-23 @ Wheat, Egyptian, (Triticum compositum) Which is cultivated in ancient Egypt, & can still be encountered there, has several ears per stalk. - BiblePlants

EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:6:1 <1CLEMENT>@ Unto these men of holy lives was gathered a vast multitude of the elect, who through many indignities and tortures, being the victims of jealousy, set a brave example among ourselves.

EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:12:5 <1CLEMENT>@ And she said unto the men, Of a surety I perceive that the Lord your God delivereth this city unto you; for the fear and the dread of you is fallen upon the inhabitants thereof. When therefore it shall come to pass that ye take it, save me and the house of my father.

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Found: 1Clement:12:6 <1CLEMENT>@ And they said unto her, It shall be even so as thou hast spoken unto us. Whensoever therefore thou perceivest that we are coming, thou shalt gather all thy folk beneath thy roof and they shall be saved; for as many as shall be found without the house shall perish.

EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:12:7 <1CLEMENT>@ And moreover they gave her a sign, that she should hang out from her house a scarlet thread, thereby showing beforehand that through the blood of the Lord there shall be redemption unto all them that believe and hope on God.

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Found: 1Clement:13:1 <1CLEMENT>@ Let us therefore be lowly minded, brethren, laying aside all arrogance and conceit and folly and anger, and let us do that which is written. For the Holy Ghost saith, Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong in his strength, neither the rich in his riches; but he that boasteth let him boast in the Lord, that he may seek Him out, and do judgment and righteousness most of all remembering the words of the Lord Jesus which He spake, teaching forbearance and long-suffering:

EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:14:5 <1CLEMENT>@ And again He saith I saw the ungodly lifted up on high and exalted as the cedars of Lebanon. And I passed by, and behold he was not; and sought out his place, and I found it not. Keep innocence and behold uprightness; for there is a remnant for the peaceful man.

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Found: 1Clement:19:1 <1CLEMENT>@ The humility therefore and the submissiveness of so many and so great men, who have thus obtained a good report, hath through obedience made better not only us but also the generations which were before us, even them that received His oracles in fear and truth.

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Found: 1Clement:20:4 <1CLEMENT>@ The earth, bearing fruit in fulfillment of His will at her proper seasons, putteth forth the food that supplieth abundantly both men and beasts and all living things which are thereupon, making no dissension, neither altering anything which He hath decreed.

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Found: 1Clement:20:6 <1CLEMENT>@ The basin of the boundless sea, gathered together by His workmanship into it's reservoirs, passeth not the barriers wherewith it is surrounded; but even as He ordered it, so it doeth.

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Found: 1Clement:21:4 <1CLEMENT>@ It is right therefore that we should not be deserters from His will.

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Found: 1Clement:21:8 <1CLEMENT>@ let them learn how lowliness of mind prevaileth with God, what power chaste love hath with God, how the fear of Him is good and great and saveth all them that walk therein in a pure mind with holiness.

EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:25:4 <1CLEMENT>@ and in the daytime in the sight of all, flying to the altar of the Sun, it layeth them thereupon; and this done, it setteth forth to return.

EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:27:1 <1CLEMENT>@ With this hope therefore let our souls be bound unto Him that is faithful in His promises and that is righteous in His judgments.

EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:27:7 <1CLEMENT>@ seeing that The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament proclaimeth His handiwork. Day uttereth word unto day, and night proclaimeth knowledge unto night; and there are neither words nor speeches, whose voices are not heard.

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Found: 1Clement:28:1 <1CLEMENT>@ Since therefore all things are seen and heard, let us fear Him and forsake the abominable lusts of evil works, that we maybe shielded by His mercy from the coming judgments.

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Found: 1Clement:28:3 <1CLEMENT>@ For the holy writing saith in a certain place Where shall I go, and where shall I be hidden from Thy face? If I ascend into the heaven, Thou art there; if I depart into the farthest parts of the earth, there is Thy right hand; if I make my bed in the depths, there is Thy Spirit.

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Found: 1Clement:29:1 <1CLEMENT>@ Let us therefore approach Him in holiness of soul, lifting up pure and undefiled hands unto Him, with love towards our gentle and compassionate Father who made us an elect portion unto Himself.

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Found: 1Clement:30:3 <1CLEMENT>@ Let us therefore cleave unto those to whom grace is given from God. Let us clothe ourselves in concord, being lowlyminded and temperate, holding ourselves aloof from all back biting and evil speaking, being justified by works and not by words.

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Found: 1Clement:31:1 <1CLEMENT>@ Let us therefore cleave unto His blessing, and let us see what are the ways of blessing. Let us study the records of the things that have happened from the beginning.

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Found: 1Clement:32:3 <1CLEMENT>@ They all therefore were glorified and magnified, not through themselves or their own works or the righteous doing which they wrought, but through His will.

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Found: 1Clement:33:3 <1CLEMENT>@ For by His exceeding great might He established the heavens, and in His incomprehensible wisdom He set them in order. And the earth He separated from the water that surroundeth it, and He set it firm on the sure foundation of His own will; and the living creatures which walk upon it He commanded to exist by His ordinance. Having before created the sea and the living creatures therein, He enclosed it by His own power.

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Found: 1Clement:34:2 <1CLEMENT>@ It is therefore needful that we should be zealous unto well doing, for of Him are all things:

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Found: 1Clement:34:4 <1CLEMENT>@ He exhorteth us therefore to believe on Him with our whole heart, and to be not idle nor careless unto every good work.

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Found: 1Clement:34:7 <1CLEMENT>@ Yea, and let us ourselves then, being gathered together in concord with intentness of heart, cry unto Him as from one mouth earnestly that we may be made partakers of His great and glorious promises.

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Found: 1Clement:35:4 <1CLEMENT>@ Let us therefore contend, that we may be found in the number of those that patiently await Him, to the end that we may be partakers of His promised gifts.

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Found: 1Clement:35:11 <1CLEMENT>@ Now understand ye these things, ye that forget God, lest at any time He seize you as a lion, and there be none to deliver.

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Found: 1Clement:35:12 <1CLEMENT>@ The sacrifice of praise shall glorify Me, and there is the way wherein I will show him the salvation of God.

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Found: 1Clement:37:1 <1CLEMENT>@ Let us therefore enlist ourselves, brethren, with all earnestness in His faultless ordinances.

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Found: 1Clement:37:4 <1CLEMENT>@ The great without the small cannot exist, neither the small without the great. There is a certain mixture in all things, and therein is utility.

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Found: 1Clement:38:4 <1CLEMENT>@ Seeing therefore that we have all these things from Him, we ought in all things to give thanks to Him, to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:39:9 <1CLEMENT>@ Far be their sons from safety. May they be mocked at the gates of inferiors, and there shall be none to deliver them. For the things which are prepared for them, the righteous shall eat; but they themselves shall not be delivered from evils.

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Found: 1Clement:40:4 <1CLEMENT>@ They therefore that make their offerings at the appointed seasons are acceptable and blessed: for while they follow the institutions of the Master they cannot go wrong.

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Found: 1Clement:41:2 <1CLEMENT>@ Not in every place, brethren, are the continual daily sacrifices offered, or the freewill offerings, or the sin offerings and the trespass offerings, but in Jerusalem alone. And even there the offering is not made in every place, but before the sanctuary in the court of the altar; and this too through the high priest and the afore said ministers, after that the victim to be offered hath been inspected for blemishes.

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Found: 1Clement:41:3 <1CLEMENT>@ They therefore who do any thing contrary to the seemly ordinance of His will receive death as the penalty.

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Found: 1Clement:42:2 <1CLEMENT>@ So then Christ is from God, and the Apostles are from Christ. Both therefore came of the will of God in the appointed order.

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Found: 1Clement:42:3 <1CLEMENT>@ Having therefore received a charge, and having been fully assured through the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ and confirmed in the word of God with full assurance of the Holy Ghost, they went forth with the glad tidings that the kingdom of God should come.

EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:43:2 <1CLEMENT>@ For he, when jealousy arose concerning the priesthood, and there was dissension among the tribes which of them was adorned with the glorious name, commanded the twelve chiefs of the tribes to bring to him rods inscribed with the name of each tribe. And he took them and tied them and sealed them with the signet rings of the chiefs of the tribes, and put them away in the tabernacle of the testimony on the table of God.

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Found: 1Clement:44:1 <1CLEMENT>@ And our Apostles knew through our Lord Jesus Christ that there would be strife over the name of the bishop's office.

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Found: 1Clement:44:2 <1CLEMENT>@ For this cause therefore, having received complete foreknowledge, they appointed the aforesaid persons, and afterwards they provided a continuance, that if these should fall asleep, other approved men should succeed to their ministration. Those therefore who were appointed by them, or afterward by other men of repute with the consent of the whole Church, and have ministered unblamably to the flock of Christ in lowliness of mind, peacefully and with all modesty, and for long time have borne a good report with all these men we consider to be unjustly thrust out from their ministration.

EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:46:1 <1CLEMENT>@ To such examples as these therefore, brethren, we also ought to cleave.

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Found: 1Clement:46:4 <1CLEMENT>@ Let us therefore cleave to the guiltless and righteous: and these are the elect of God.

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Found: 1Clement:46:5 <1CLEMENT>@ Wherefore are there strifes and wraths and factions and divisions and war among you?

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Found: 1Clement:46:6 <1CLEMENT>@ Have we not one God and one Christ and one Spirit of grace that was shed upon us? And is there not one calling in Christ?

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Found: 1Clement:48:1 <1CLEMENT>@ Let us therefore root this out quickly, and let us fall down before the Master and entreat Him with tears, that He may show Himself propitious and be reconciled unto us, and may restore us to the seemly and pure conduct which belongeth to our love of the brethren.

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Found: 1Clement:48:2 <1CLEMENT>@ For this is a gate of righteousness opened unto life, as it is written; Open me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter in thereby and preach the Lord.

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Found: 1Clement:48:3 <1CLEMENT>@ This is the gate of the Lord; the righteous shall enter in thereby.

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Found: 1Clement:50:1 <1CLEMENT>@ Ye see, dearly beloved, how great and marvelous a thing is love, and there is no declaring its perfection.

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Found: 1Clement:50:2 <1CLEMENT>@ Who is sufficient to be found therein, save those to whom God shall vouchsafe it? Let us therefore entreat and ask of His mercy, that we may be found blameless in love, standing apart from the factiousness of men. All the generations from Adam unto this day have passed away: but they that by God's grace were perfected in love dwell in the abode of the pious; and they shall be made manifest in the visitation of the Kingdom of God.

EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:53:1 <1CLEMENT>@ For ye know, and know well, the sacred scriptures, dearly beloved, and ye have searched into the oracles of God. We write these things therefore to put you in remembrance.

EARLYCHURCHFATHERS.txt
Found: 1Clement:54:1 <1CLEMENT>@ Who therefore is noble among you? Who is compassionate? Who is fulfilled with love?

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Found: 1Clement:54:2 <1CLEMENT>@ Let him say; If by reason of me there be faction and strife and divisions, I retire, I depart, whither ye will, and I do that which is ordered by the people: only let the flock of Christ be at peace with its duly appointed presbyters.

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Found: 1Clement:54:3 <1CLEMENT>@ He that shall have done this, shall win for himself great renown in Christ, and every place will receive him: for the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.

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Found: 1Clement:56:15 <1CLEMENT>@ And thou shalt come to the grave as ripe corn reaped in due season, or as the heap of the threshing floor gathered together at the right time.

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Found: 1Clement:56:16 <1CLEMENT>@ Ye see, dearly beloved, how great protection there is for them that are chastened by the Master: for being a kind father He chasteneth us to the end that we may obtain mercy through His holy chastisement.

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Found: 1Clement:57:1 <1CLEMENT>@ Ye therefore that laid the foundation of the sedition, submit yourselves unto the presbyters and receive chastisement unto repentance, bending the knees of your heart.

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Found: 1Clement:57:4 <1CLEMENT>@ Because I called and ye obeyed not, and I held out words and ye heeded not, but made My councils of none effect, and were disobedient unto My reproofs; therefore I also will laugh at your destruction, and will rejoice over you when ruin cometh upon you, and when confusion overtaketh you suddenly, and your overthrow is at hand like a whirlwind,

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Found: 1Clement:58:1 <1CLEMENT>@ Let us therefore be obedient unto His most holy and glorious Name, thereby escaping the threatenings which were spoken of old by the mouth of Wisdom against them which disobey, that we may dwell safely, trusting in the most holy Name of His majesty.

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Found: 1Clement:61:1 <1CLEMENT>@ Thou, Lord and Master, hast given them the power of sovereignty through Thine excellent and unspeakable might, that we knowing the glory and honor which Thou hast given them may submit ourselves unto them, in nothing resisting Thy will. Grant unto them therefore, O Lord, health peace, concord, stability, that they may administer the government which Thou hast given them without failure.

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Found: 2Clement:4:1 <2CLEMENT>@ Let us therefore not only call Him Lord, for this will not save us:

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Found: 2Clement:4:5 <2CLEMENT>@ For this cause, if ye do these things, the Lord said, Though ye be gathered together with Me in My bosom, and do not My commandments, I will cast you away and will say unto you, Depart from Me, I know you not whence ye are, ye workers of iniquity.

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Found: 2Clement:6:5 <2CLEMENT>@ We cannot therefore be friends of the two, but must bid farewell to the one and hold companionship with the other.

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Found: 2Clement:6:6 <2CLEMENT>@ Let us consider that it is better to hate the things which are here, because they are mean and for a short time and perishable, and to love the things which are there, for they are good and imperishable.

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Found: 2Clement:8:3 <2CLEMENT>@ For after that we have departed out of the world, we can no more make confession there, or repent any more.

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Found: 2Clement:9:3 <2CLEMENT>@ We ought therefore to guard the flesh as a temple of God:

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Found: 2Clement:9:6 <2CLEMENT>@ Let us therefore love one another, that we all may come unto the kingdom of God.

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Found: 2Clement:9:10 <2CLEMENT>@ Let us therefore give unto Him eternal praise, not from our lips only, but also from our heart, that He may receive us as sons.

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Found: 2Clement:11:1 <2CLEMENT>@ Let us therefore serve God in a pure heart, and we shall be righteous; but if we serve Him not, because we believe not the promise of God, we shall be wretched.

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Found: 2Clement:11:7 <2CLEMENT>@ If therefore we shalt have wrought righteousness in the sight of God, we shalt enter into His kingdom and shall receive the promises which ear hath not heard nor eye seen, nor eye seen, neither hath it entered into the heart of man.

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Found: 2Clement:12:1 <2CLEMENT>@ Let us therefore await the kingdom of God betimes in love and righteousness, since we know not the day of God's appearing.

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Found: 2Clement:12:3 <2CLEMENT>@ Now the two are one, when we speak truth among ourselves, and in two bodies there shall be one soul without dissimulation.

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Found: 2Clement:14:1 <2CLEMENT>@ Wherefore, brethren, if we do the will of God our Father, we shall be of the first Church, which is spiritual, which was created before the sun and the moon; but if we do not the will of the Lord, we shall be of the scripture that saith, My house was made a den of robbers. So therefore let us choose rather to be of the Church of life, that we may be saved.

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Found: 2Clement:14:3 <2CLEMENT>@ Now the Church, being spiritual was manifested in the flesh of Christ, thereby showing us that if any of us guard her in the flesh and defile her not, he shall receive her again in the Holy Spirit: for this flesh is the counterpart and copy of the spirit. No man therefore, when he hath defiled the copy, shall receive the original for his portion. This therefore is what He meaneth, brethren; Guard ye the flesh, that ye may partake of the spirit.

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Found: 2Clement:14:4 <2CLEMENT>@ But if we say that the flesh is the Church and the spirit is Christ, then he that hath dealt wantonly with the flesh hath dealt wantonly with the Church. Such and one therefore shall not partake of the spirit, which is Christ>.

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Found: 2Clement:15:1 <2CLEMENT>@ Now I do not think that I have given any mean council respecting continence, and whosoever performeth it shall not repent thereof, but shall save both himself and me his councilor. For it is no mean reward to convert a wondering and perishing soul, that it may be saved.

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Found: 2Clement:15:3 <2CLEMENT>@ Let is therefore abide in the things which we believed, in righteousness and holiness, that we may with boldness as of God who saith, Whiles thou art still speaking I will say, Behold, I am here.

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Found: 2Clement:16:4 <2CLEMENT>@ Almsgiving therefore is a good thing, even as repentance from sin> Fasting is better than prayer, but almsgiving better than both. And love covereth a multitude of sins, but prayer out of a good conscience delivereth from death. Blessed is every man that is found full of these. For almsgiving lifteth off the burden of sin.

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Found: 2Clement:17:1 <2CLEMENT>@ Let us therefore repent with our whole heart, lest any of us perish by the way. For if we have received commands, that we should make this our business, to tear men away from idols and to instruct them, how much more is it wrong that a soul which knoweth God already should perish!

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Found: 2Clement:17:3 <2CLEMENT>@ And let us not think to give heed and believe now only, while we have departed home, let us remember the commandments of the Lord, and not suffer ourselves to be dragged off the other way by our worldly lusts; but coming hither more frequently, let us strive to go forward in the commandments of the Lord, that we all having the same mind may be gathered together unto life.

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Found: 2Clement:19:3 <2CLEMENT>@ Let us therefore practice righteousness that we may be saved unto the end. Blessed are they that obey these ordinances. Though they may endure affliction for a short time in the world, they will gather the immortal fruit of the resurrection.

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Found: Barnabas:1:4 @ Being therefore persuaded of this, and being conscious with myself that having said much among you I know that the Lord journeyed with me on the way of righteousness, and am wholly constrained also myself to this, to love you more than my own soul (for great faith and love dwelleth in you through the hope of the life which is His)--considering this therefore, that,

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Found: Barnabas:1:6 @ Well then, there are three ordinances of the Lord; *the hope of life, which is the beginning and end of our faith; and righteousness, which is the beginning and end of judgment; love shown in gladness and exultation, the testimony of works of righteousness.*

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Found: Barnabas:2:6 @ These things therefore He annulled, that the new law of our Lord Jesus Christ, being free from the yoke of constraint, might have its oblation not made by human hands.

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Found: Barnabas:2:10 @ Thus then speaketh He to us; The sacrifice unto God is a broken heart, the smell of a sweet savor unto the Lord is a heart that glorifies its Maker. We ought therefore, brethren, to learn accurately concerning our salvation, lest the Evil One having effected an entrance of error in us should fling us away from our life.

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Found: Barnabas:3:1 @ He speaketh again therefore to them concerning these things; Wherefore fast ye for Me, saith the Lord, so that your voice is heard this day crying aloud? This is not the fast which have chosen, saith the Lord; not a man abasing his soul;

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Found: Barnabas:3:6 @ To this end therefore, my brethren, He that is long-suffering, foreseeing that the people whom He had prepared in His well-beloved would believe in simplicity, manifested to us beforehand concerning all things, that we might not as novices shipwreck ourselves upon their law.

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Found: Barnabas:4:1 @ It behooves us therefore to investigate deeply concerning the present, and to search out the things which have power to save us. Let us therefore flee altogether from all the works of lawlessness, lest the works of lawlessness overpower us; and let us loathe the error of the present time, that we may be loved for that which is to come.

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Found: Barnabas:4:5 @ In like manner Daniel speaketh concerning the same; And I saw the forth beast to be wicked and strong and more intractable than all the beasts of the earth, and how there arose from him ten horns, and from these a little horn and excrescence, and how that it abased under one three of the great horns.

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Found: Barnabas:4:6 @ Ye ought therefore to understand. Moreover I ask you this one thing besides, as being one of yourselves and loving you all in particular more than my own soul, to give heed to yourselves now, and not to liken yourselves to certain persons who pile up sin upon sin, saying that our covenant remains to them also.

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Found: Barnabas:5:3 @ We ought therefore to be very thankful unto the Lord, for that He both revealed unto us the past, and made us wise in the present, and as regards the future we are not without understanding.

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Found: Barnabas:5:12 @ To this end therefore He endured. For God saith of the wounds of His flesh that they came from them; When they shall smite their own shepherd, then shall the sheep of the flock be lost.

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Found: Barnabas:6:6 @ What then saith the prophet again? The assembly of evildoers gathered around Me, they surrounded Me as bees surround a comb; and; For My garment they cast a lot.

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Found: Barnabas:6:16 @ For the Lord saith again; For wherein shall I appear unto the Lord my God and be glorified? I will make confession unto Thee in the assembly of my brethren, and I will sing unto Thee in the midst of the assembly of the saints. We therefore are they whom He brought into the good land.

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Found: Barnabas:7:1 @ Understand therefore, children of gladness, that the good Lord manifested all things to us beforehand, that we might know to whom we ought in all things to render thanksgiving and praise.

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Found: Barnabas:7:3 @ But moreover when crucified He had vinegar and gall given Him to drink. Hear how on this matter the priests of the temple have revealed. Seeing that there is a commandment in scripture, Whatsoever shall not observe the fast shall surely die, the Lord commanded, because He was in His own person about to offer the vessel of His Spirit a sacrifice for our sins, that the type also which was given in Isaac who was offered upon the alter should be fulfilled.

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Found: Barnabas:8:3 @ The children who sprinkle are they that preached unto us the forgiveness of sins and the purification of our heart, they to whom, being twelve in number for a testimony unto the tribes (for there are twelve tribes of Israel), He gave authority over the Gospel, that they should preach it.

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Found: Barnabas:8:5 @ Then there is the placing the wool on the tree. This means that the kingdom of Jesus is on the cross, and that they who set their hope on Him shall live for ever.

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Found: Barnabas:8:6 @ And why is there the wool and the hyssop at the same time? Because in His kingdom there shall be evil and foul days, in which we shall be saved; for he who suffers pain in the flesh is healed through the foulness of the hyssop.

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Found: Barnabas:9:6 @ Learn therefore, children of love, concerning all things abundantly, that Abraham, who first appointed circumcision, looked forward in the spirit unto Jesus, when he circumcised having received the ordinances of three letters.

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Found: Barnabas:11:10 @ Next what saith He? And there was a river streaming from the right hand, and beautiful trees rose up from it; and whosoever shall eat of them shall live forever.

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Found: Barnabas:12:2 @ And He saith again in Moses, when war was waged against Israel by men of another nation, and that He might remind them when the war was waged against them that for their sins they were delivered unto death; the Spirit saith to the heart of Moses, that he should make a type of the cross and of Him that was to suffer, that unless, saith He, they shall set their hope on Him, war shall be waged against them for ever. Moses therefore pileth arms one upon another in the midst of the encounter, and standing on higher ground than any he stretched out his hands, and so Israel was again victorious. Then, whenever he lowered them, they were slain with the sword.

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Found: Barnabas:12:7 @ When therefore they were assembled together they entreated Moses that he should offer up intercession for them that they might be healed. And Moses said unto them; Whensoever, said he, one of you shall be bitten, let him come to the serpent which is placed on the tree, and let him believe and hope that the serpent being himself dead can make alive; and forthwith he shall be saved. And so they did. Here again thou hast in these things also the glory of Jesus, how that in Him and unto Him are all things.

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Found: Barnabas:12:9 @ Moses therefore saith to Jesus the son of Nun, giving him this name, when he sent him as a spy on the land; Take a book in thy hands, and write what the Lord saith, how the Son of God shall cut up by the roots all the house of Amalek in the last days.

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Found: Barnabas:15:6 @ Yea and furthermore He saith; Thou shalt hallow it with pure hands and with a pure heart. If therefore a man is able now to hallow the day which God hallowed, though he be pure in heart, we have gone utterly astray.

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Found: Barnabas:16:5 @ Again, it was revealed how the city and the temple and the people of Israel should be betrayed. For the scripture saith; And it shall be in the last days, that the Lord shall deliver up the sheep of the pasture and the fold and the tower thereof to destruction. And it came to pass as the Lord spake.

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Found: Barnabas:16:6 @ But let us enquire whether there be any temple of God. There is; in the place where he himself undertakes to make and finish it. For it is written And it shall come to pass, when the week is being accomplished, the temple of God shall be built gloriously in the name of the Lord.

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Found: Barnabas:16:7 @ I find then that there is a temple, How then shall it be built in the name of the Lord? Understand ye. Before we believed on God, the abode of our heart was corrupt and weak, a temple truly built by hands; for it was full of idolatry and was a house of demons, because we did whatsoever was contrary to God.

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Found: Barnabas:18:1 @ But let us pass on to another lesson and teaching. There are two ways of teaching and of power, the one of light and the other of darkness; and there is a great difference between the two ways. For on the one are stationed the light giving angels of God, on the other the angels of Satan.

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Found: Barnabas:19:1 @ This then is the way of light, if anyone desiring to travel on the way to his appointed place would be zealous in his works. The knowledge then which is given to us whereby we may walk therein is as follows.

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Found: Barnabas:21:1 @ It is good therefore to learn the ordinances of the Lord, as many as have been written above, and to walk in them. For he that doeth these things shall be glorified in the kingdom of God; whereas he that chooseth their opposites shall perish together with his works. For this cause is the resurrection, for this the recompense.

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Found: Didache:1:1 @ There are two ways, one of life and one of death, and there is a great difference between the two ways.

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Found: Didache:4:1 @ My child, thou shalt remember him that speaketh unto thee the word of God night and day, and shalt honor him as the Lord; for whencesoever the Lordship speaketh, there is the Lord.

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Found: Didache:9:4 @ As this broken bread was scattered upon the mountains and being gathered together became one, so may Thy Church be gathered together from the ends of the earth into Thy kingdom; for Thine is the glory and the power through Jesus Christ for ever and ever.

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Found: Didache:11:1 @ Whosoever therefore shall come and teach you all these things that have been said before, receive him;

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Found: Didache:11:2 @ but if the teacher himself be perverted and teach a different doctrine to the destruction thereof, hear him not; but if to the increase of righteousness and the knowledge of the Lord, receive him as the Lord.

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Found: Didache:11:5 @ but he shall not abide more than a single day, or if there be need, a second likewise; but if he abide three days, he is a false prophet.

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Found: Didache:11:8 @ Yet not every one that speaketh in the Spirit is a prophet, but only if he have the ways of the Lord. From his ways therefore the false prophet and the prophet shall be recognized.

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Found: Didache:15:1 @ Appoint for yourselves therefore bishops and deacons worthy of the Lord, men who are meek and not lovers of money, and true and approved; for unto you they also perform the service of the prophets and teachers.

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Found: Diognetus:2:8 @ And as for the honors which ye think to offer to them, if they are sensible of them, ye rather punish them thereby, whereas, if they are insensible, ye reproach them by propitiating them with the blood and fat of victims.

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Found: Diognetus:3:4 @ For He that made the heaven and the earth and all things that are therein, and furnisheth us all with what we need, cannot Himself need any of these things which He Himself supplieth to them that imagine they are giving them to Him.

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Found: Diognetus:4:6 @ That the Christians are right therefore in holding aloof from the common silliness and error of the Jews and from their excessive fussiness and pride, I consider that thou hast been sufficiently instructed; but as regards the mystery of their own religion, expect not that thou canst be instructed by man.

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Found: Diognetus:5:16 @ Doing good they are punished as evil-doers; being punished they rejoice, as if they were thereby quickened by life.

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Found: Diognetus:12:4 @ For neither is there life without knowledge, nor sound knowledge without true life; therefore the one (tree) is planted near the other.

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Found: Diognetus:12:9 @ and salvation is set forth, and the apostles are filled with understanding, and the Passover of the Lord goes forward, and the congregations are gathered together, and all things are arranged in order, and as He teacheth the saints the Word is gladdened, through Whom the Father is glorified, to Whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

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Found: Hermas:2:2 @ While I was advising and discussing these matters in my heart, I see, before me a great white chair of snow-white wool; and there came an aged lady in glistening raiment, having a book in her hands, and she sat down alone, and she saluted me, "Good morrow, Hermas." Then I grieved and weeping, said, "Good morrow, lady."

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Found: Hermas:3:2 @ But the great mercy of the Lord had pity on thee and thy family, and will strengthen thee, and establish thee in His glory. Only be not thou careless, but take courage, and strengthen thy family. For as the smith hammering his work conquers the task which he wills, so also doth righteous discourse repeated daily conquer all evil. Cease not therefore to reprove thy children; for I know that if they shall repent with all their heart, they shall be written in the books of life with the saints."

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Found: Hermas:4:1 @ When then she finished reading and arose from her chair, there came four young men, and they took away the chair, and departed towards the East.

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Found: Hermas:26:5 @ For the Master sware by His own glory, as concerning His elect; that if, now that this day has been set as a limit, sin shall hereafter be committed, they shall not find salvation; for repentance for the righteous hath an end; the days of repentance are accomplished for all the saints; whereas for the Gentiles there is repentance until the last day.

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Found: Hermas:26:6 @ Thou shalt therefore say unto the elders of the Church, that they direct their paths in righteousness, that they may receive in full the promises with abundant glory.

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Found: Hermas:26:7 @ Ye therefore that work righteousness be steadfast, and be not double-minded, that ye may have admission with the holy angels. Blessed are ye, as many as endure patiently the great tribulation that cometh, and as many as shall not deny their life.

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Found: Hermas:37:2 @ But herein is thy salvation, in that thou didst not depart from the living God, and in thy simplicity and thy great continence. These have saved thee, if thou abidest therein; and they save all who do such things, and walk in guilelessness and simplicity. These men prevail over all wickedness, and continue unto life eternal.

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Found: Hermas:48:1 @ Now, brethren, a revelation was made unto me in my sleep by a youth of exceeding fair form, who said to me, "Whom thinkest thou the aged woman, from whom thou receivedst the book, to be?" I say, "The Sibyl" "Thou art wrong," saith he, "she is not." "Who then is she?" I say. "The Church," saith he. I said unto him, "Wherefore then is she aged?" "Because," saith he, "she was created before all things; therefore is she aged; and for her sake the world was framed."

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Found: Hermas:48:3 @ Thou shalt therefore write two little books, and shalt send one to Clement, and one to Grapte. So Clement shall send to the foreign cities, for this is his duty; while Grapte shall instruct the widows and the orphans. But thou shalt read (the book) to this city along with the elders that preside over the Church.

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Found: Hermas:19y:4 @ I went then, brethren, into the country, and I counted up the hours, and came to the place where I appointed her to come, and I see an ivory couch placed there, and on the couch there lay a linen cushion, and on the cushion was spread a coverlet of fine linen of flax.

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Found: Hermas:19y:9 @ When then I wanted to sit down on the right side, she would not allow me, but beckoned me with her hand that I should sit on the left side. As then I was musing thereon, and was sad because she would not permit me to sit on the right side, she saith to me, "Art thou sad, Hermas? The place on the right side is for others, even for those who have already been well-pleasing to God, and have suffered for the Name's sake. But thou lackest much that thou shouldest sit with them; but as thou abidest in thy simplicity, even so, and thou shalt sit with them, thou and as many as shall have done their deeds, and have suffered what they suffered."

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Found: Hermas:210:9 @ And I saw other stones thrown to a distance from the tower, and coming to the way, and yet not staying in the way, but rolling to where there was no way; and others falling into the fire and burning there; and others falling near the waters, and yet not able to roll into the water, although they desired to roll and to come to the water.

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Found: Hermas:311:2 @ "Many shall hear; but when they hear, some of them shall be glad, and others shall weep. Yet even these latter, if they hear and repent, shall likewise be glad. Hear thou therefore the parables of the tower; for I will reveal all things unto thee. And trouble me no more about revelation; for these revelations have an end, seeing that they have been completed. Nevertheless thou wilt not cease asking for revelations; for thou art shameless."

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Found: Hermas:311:3 @ The tower, which thou seest building, is myself, the Church, which was seen of thee both now and aforetime. Ask, therefore, what thou willest concerning the tower, and I will reveal it unto thee, that thou mayest rejoice with the saints."

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Found: Hermas:412:1 @ I answered and said unto her, "Lady, this thing is great and marvelous. But the six young men that build, who are they, lady?" "These are the holy angels of God, that were created first of all, unto whom the Lord delivered all His creation to increase and to build it, and to be masters of all creation. By their hands therefore the building of the tower will be accomplished."

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Found: Hermas:412:3 @ I enquired of her, saying, "Lady, I could wish to know concerning the end of the stones, and their power, of what kind it is." She answered and said unto me, "It is not that thou of all men art especially worthy that it should be revealed to thee; for there are others before thee, and better than thou art, unto whom these visions ought to have been revealed. But that the name of God may be glorified, it hath been revealed to thee, all shall be revealed, for the sake of the doubtful-minded, who question in their hearts whether these things are so or not. Tell them that all these things are true, and that there is nothing beside the truth, but that all are steadfast, and valid, and established on a firm foundation.

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Found: Hermas:513:5 @ "But those whom they rejected and threw away, who are they?" "These have sinned, and desire to repent, therefore they were not cast to a great distance from the tower, because they will be useful for the building, if they repent. They then that shall repent, if they repent, will be strong in the faith, if they repent now while the tower is building. But if the building shall be finished, they have no more any place, but shall be castaways. This privilege only they have, that they lie near the tower.

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Found: Hermas:5[13^:4 @ But they that are broken off short, these have believed, and have their greater part in righteousness, but have some parts of lawlessness; therefore they are too short, and are not perfect."

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Found: Hermas:715:1 @ "But the other stones which thou sawest cast far away from the tower and falling into the way and rolling out of the way into the regions where there is no way, these are they that have believed, but by reason of their double heart they abandon their true way. Thus thinking that they can find a better way, they go astray and are sore distressed, as they walk about in the regions where there is no way.

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Found: Hermas:816:8 @ Whosoever therefore shall serve these women, and shall have strength to master their works, shall have his dwelling in the tower with the saints of God."

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Found: Hermas:816:9 @ Then I asked her concerning the seasons, whether the consummation is even now. But she cried aloud, saying, "Foolish man, seest thou not that the tower is still a-building? Whensoever therefore the tower shall be finished building, the end cometh; but it shall be built up quickly. Ask me no more questions: this reminder is sufficient for you and for the saints, and is the renewal of your spirits.

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Found: Hermas:917:4 @ This exclusiveness therefore is hurtful to you that have and do not share with them that are in want.

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Found: Hermas:917:6 @ Look ye therefore, ye that exult in your wealth, lest they that are in want shall moan, and their moaning shall go up unto the Lord, and ye with your [abundance of good things be shut outside the door of the tower.

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Found: Hermas:917:7 @ Now therefore I say unto you that are rulers of the Church, and that occupy the chief seats; be not ye like unto the sorcerers. The sorcerers indeed carry their drugs in boxes, but ye carry your drug and your poison in your heart.

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Found: Hermas:917:9 @ Look ye therefore, children, lest these divisions of yours deprive you of your life.

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Found: Hermas:917:10 @ How is it that ye wish to instruct the elect of the Lord, while ye yourselves have no instruction? Instruct one another therefore, and have peace among yourselves, that I also may stand gladsome before the Father, and give an account concerning you all to your Lord."

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Found: Hermas:1018:6 @ And I see the aged woman in a vision of the night, saying to me, "Every enquiry needs humility. Fast therefore, and thou shalt receive what thou askest from the Lord."

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Found: Hermas:1018:7 @ So I fasted one day; and that very night there appeared unto me a young man, and he saith to me, "Seeing that thou askest me revelations offhand with entreaty, take heed lest by thy much asking thou injure thy flesh.

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Found: Hermas:1220:3 @ For He had compassion on you, and renewed your spirits, and ye laid aside your maladies, and strength came to you, and ye were made powerful in the faith, and the Lord rejoiced to see you put on your strength. And therefore He showed you the building of the tower; yea, and other things also shall He show you, if with your whole heart ye be at peace among yourselves.

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Found: Hermas:122:4 @ And as I gave glory and thanksgiving to Him, there answered me as it were the sound of a voice, "Be not of doubtful mind, Hermas." I began to question in myself and to say, "How can I be of doubtful mind, seeing that I am so firmly founded by the Lord, and have seen glorious things?"

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Found: Hermas:122:8 @ Having therefore, brethren, put on the faith of the Lord and called to mind the mighty works that He had taught me, I took courage and gave myself up to the beast. Now the beast was coming on with such a rush, that it might have ruined a city.

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Found: Hermas:223:1 @ Now after I had passed the beast, and had gone forward about thirty feet, behold, there meeteth me a virgin arrayed as if she were going forth from a bridal-chamber all in white and with white sandals, veiled up to her forehead, and her head-covering consisted of a turban, and her hair was white.

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Found: Hermas:223:5 @ Go therefore, and declare to the elect of the Lord His mighty works, and tell them that this beast is a type of the great tribulation which is to come. If therefore ye prepare yourselves beforehand, and repent (and turn) unto the Lord with your whole heart, ye shall be able to escape it, if your heart be made pure and without blemish, and if for the remaining days of your life ye serve the Lord blamelessly. Cast your cares upon the Lord and He will set them straight.

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Found: Hermas:525:1 @ As I prayed in the house, and sat on the couch, there entered a man glorious in his visage, in the garb of a shepherd, with a white skin wrapped about him, and with a wallet on his shoulders and a staff in his hand. And he saluted me, and I saluted him in return.

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Found: Hermas:126:2 @ Believe Him therefore, and fear Him, and in this fear be continent. Keep these things, and thou shalt cast off all wickedness from thyself, and shalt clothe thyself with every excellence of righteousness, and shalt live unto God, if thou keep this commandment."

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Found: Hermas:127:3 @ Slander is evil; it is a restless demon, never at peace, but always having its home among factions. Refrain from it therefore, and thou shalt have success at all times with all men.

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Found: Hermas:127:4 @ But clothe thyself in reverence, wherein is no evil stumbling-block, but all things are smooth and gladsome. Work that which is good, and of thy labors, which God giveth thee, give to all that are in want freely, not questioning to whom thou shalt give, and to whom thou shalt not give. Give to all; for to all God desireth that there should be given of His own bounties.

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Found: Hermas:127:6 @ He then that giveth is guiltless; for as he received from the Lord the ministration to perform it, he hath performed it in sincerity, by making no distinction to whom to give or not to give. This ministration then, when sincerely performed, becomes glorious in the sight of God. He therefore that ministereth thus sincerely shall live unto God.

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Found: Hermas:128:1 @ Again he saith to me; "Love truth, and let nothing but truth proceed out of thy mouth, that the Spirit which God made to dwell in this flesh, may be found true in the sight of all men; and thus shall the Lord, Who dwelleth in thee, be glorified; for the Lord is true in every word, and with Him there is no falsehood.

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Found: Hermas:128:2 @ They therefore that speak lies set the Lord at nought, and become robbers of the Lord, for they do not deliver up to Him the deposit which they received. For they received of Him a spirit free from lies. This if they shall return a lying spirit, they have defiled the commandment of the Lord and have become robbers."

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Found: Hermas:129:3 @ Look to it therefore. Abstain from this desire; for, where holiness dwelleth, there lawlessness ought not to enter into the heart of a righteous man."

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Found: Hermas:129:8 @ "Certainly," saith he, "if the husband receiveth her not, he sinneth and bringeth great sin upon himself; nay, one who hath sinned and repented must be received, yet not often; for there is but one repentance for the servants of God. For the sake of her repentance therefore the husband ought not to marry. This is the manner of acting enjoined on husband and wife.

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Found: Hermas:129:9 @ Not only," saith he, "is it adultery, if a man pollute his flesh, but whosoever doeth things like unto the heathen committeth adultery. If therefore in such deeds as these likewise a man continue and repent not, keep away from him, and live not with him. Otherwise, thou also art a partaker of his sin.

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Found: Hermas:129:11 @ I," said he, "am not giving an excuse that this matter should be concluded thus, but to the end that the sinner should sin no more. But as concerning his former sin, there is One Who is able to give healing; it is He Who hath authority over all things."

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Found: Hermas:230:3 @ "It is on this account therefore, Sir," say I, "that I enquire everything accurately of thee; first, because I am a sinner; secondly, because I know not what deeds I must do that I may live, for my sins are many and various."

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Found: Hermas:331:1 @ "I will still proceed, Sir," say I, "to ask a further question." "Speak on," saith he. "I have heard, Sir," say I, "from certain teachers, that there is no other repentance, save that which took place when we rent down into the water and obtained remission of our former sins."

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Found: Hermas:432:3 @ Preserve purity and holiness therefore, and thou shalt live unto God. All these things, which I speak and shall hereafter speak unto thee, guard from this time forward, from the day when thou wast committed unto me, and I will dwell in thy house.

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Found: Hermas:432:4 @ But for thy former transgressions there shall be remission, if thou keepest my commandments. Yea, and all shall have remission, if they keep these my commandments, and walk in this purity."

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Found: Hermas:234:3 @ But long-suffering is great and strong, and has a mighty and vigorous power, and is prosperous in great enlargement, gladsome, exultant, free from care, glorifying the Lord at every season, having no bitterness in itself, remaining always gentle and tranquil. This long-suffering therefore dwelleth with those whose faith is perfect.

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Found: Hermas:234:6 @ The delicate spirit therefore, as not being accustomed to dwell with an evil spirit nor with harshness, departeth from a man of that kind, and seeketh to dwell with gentleness and tranquillity.

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Found: Hermas:234:8 @ Refrain therefore from angry temper, the most evil of evil spirits. But clothe thyself in long-suffering, and resist angry temper and bitterness, and thou shalt be round in company with the holiness which is beloved of the Lord. See then that thou never neglect this commandment; for if thou master this commandment, thou shalt be able likewise to keep the remaining commandments, which I am about to give thee. Be strong in them and endowed with power; and let all be endowed with power, as many as desire to walk in them."

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Found: Hermas:135:2 @ Do thou therefore trust righteousness, but trust not unrighteousness; for the way of righteousness is straight, but the way of unrighteousness is crooked. But walk thou in the straight and level path, and leave the crooked one alone.

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Found: Hermas:135:3 @ For the crooked way has no tracks, but only pathlessness and many stumbling stones, and is rough and thorny. So it is therefore harmful to those who walk in it.

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Found: Hermas:236:3 @ "Hear," saith he, "and understand their workings. The angel of righteousness is delicate and bashful and gentle and tranquil. When then this one enters into thy heart, forthwith he speaketh with thee of righteousness, of purity, of holiness, and of contentment, of every righteous deed and of every glorious virtue. When all these things enter into thy heart, know that the angel of righteousness is with thee. [These then are the works of the angel of righteousness.] Trust him therefore and his works.

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Found: Hermas:236:6 @ Do thou therefore, recognizing his works, stand aloof from him, and trust him in nothing, for his works are evil and inexpedient for the servants of God. Here then thou hast the workings of both the angels. Understand them, and trust the angel of righteousness.

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Found: Hermas:137:2 @ But fear not the devil; for, if thou fear the Lord, thou shalt be master over the devil, for there is no power in him. For in whom is no power, neither is there fear of him; but in whom power is glorious, of him is fear likewise. For every one that hath power hath fear, whereas he that hath no power is despised of all.

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Found: Hermas:137:4 @ Fear therefore is of two kinds. If thou desire to do evil, fear the Lord, and thou shalt not do it. If again thou desire to do good, fear the Lord and thou shalt do it. Therefore the fear of the Lord is powerful and great and glorious. Fear the Lord then, and thou shalt live unto Him; yea, and as many of them that keep His commandments as shall fear Him, shall live unto God."

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Found: Hermas:138:2 @ "Make known unto me, Sir," say I, "in what things it is right to be temperate, and in what things it is not right." "Listen," saith he. "Be temperate as to what is evil, and do it not; but be not temperate as to what is good, but do it. For if thou be temperate as to what is good, so as not to do it, thou committest a great sin; but if thou be temperate as to what is evil, so as not to do it, thou doest great righteousness. Be temperate therefore in abstaining from all wickedness, and do that which is good."

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Found: Hermas:138:4 @ These works are the most wicked of all in the life of men. From these works therefore the servant of God must be temperate and abstain; for he that is not temperate so as to abstain from these cannot live unto God. Listen then to what follows upon these."

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Found: Hermas:138:5 @ "Why, are there still other evil deeds, Sir?" say I. "Aye, saith he, "there are many, from which the servant of God must be temperate and abstain; theft, falsehood, deprivation, false witness, avarice, evil desire, deceit, vain-glory, boastfulness, and whatsoever things are like unto these.

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Found: Hermas:138:6 @ Thinkest thou not that these things are wrong, yea, very wrong," saith he, "for the servants of God? In all these things he that serveth God must exercise temperance. Be thou temperate, therefore, and refrain from all these things, that thou mayest live unto God, and be enrolled among those who exercise self-restraint in them. These then are the things from which thou shouldest restrain thyself

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Found: Hermas:138:9 @ First of all, there is faith, fear of the Lord, love, concord, words of righteousness, truth, patience; nothing is better than these in the life of men. If a man keep these, and exercise not self-restraint from them, he becomes blessed in his life.

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Found: Hermas:138:12 @ Keep this commandment therefore. If thou do good and abstain not from it, thou shalt live unto God; yea, and all shall live unto God who act so. And again if thou do not evil, and abstain from it, thou shalt live unto God; yea, and all shall live unto God, who shall keep these commandments, and walk in them."

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Found: Hermas:139:4 @ Do thou therefore cleanse thy heart from all the vanities of this life, and from the things mentioned before; and ask of the Lord, and thou shalt receive all things, and shalt lack nothing of all thy petitions, if thou ask of the Lord nothing wavering.

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Found: Hermas:139:7 @ Cleanse therefore thy heart from doubtful-mindedness, and put on faith, for it is strong, and trust God that thou wilt receive all thy petitions which thou askest; and if after asking anything of the Lord, thou receive thy petition somewhat tardily, be not of doubtful mind because thou didst not receive the petition of thy soul at once. For assuredly it is by reason of some temptation or some transgression, of which thou art ignorant, that thou receivest thy petition so tardily.

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Found: Hermas:139:8 @ Do thou therefore cease not to make thy soul's petition, and thou shalt receive it. But if thou grow weary, and doubt as thou askest, blame thyself and not Him that giveth unto thee. See to this doubtful-mindedness; for it is evil and senseless, and uprooteth many from the faith, yea, even very faithful and strong men. For indeed this doubtful-mindedness is a daughter of the devil, and worketh great wickedness against the servants of God.

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Found: Hermas:139:11 @ Do thou therefore serve that faith which hath power, and hold aloof from the doubtful-mindedness which hath no power; and thou shalt live unto God; yea, and all those shall live unto God who are so minded."

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Found: Hermas:140:6 @ But they that have the fear of God, and investigate concerning deity and truth, and direct their heart towards the Lord, perceive and understand everything that is said to them more quickly, because they have the fear of the Lord in themselves; for where the Lord dwelleth, there too is great understanding. Cleave therefore unto the Lord, and thou shalt understand and perceive all things.

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Found: Hermas:241:4 @ This sadness therefore seemeth to bring salvation, because he repented at having done the evil. So both the operations sadden the Spirit; first, the doubtful mind saddens the Spirit, because it succeeded not in its business, and the angry temper again, because it did what was evil. Thus both are saddening to the Holy Spirit, the doubtful mind and the angry temper.

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Found: Hermas:241:5 @ Put away therefore from thyself sadness, and afflict not the Holy Spirit that dwelleth in thee, lest haply He intercede with God against thee, and depart from thee.

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Found: Hermas:143:4 @ So many therefore as are strong in the faith of the Lord, clothed with the truth, cleave not to such spirits, but hold aloof from them; but as many as are doubters and frequently change their minds, practice soothsaying like the Gentiles, and bring upon themselves greater sin by their idolatries. For he that consulteth a false prophet on any matter is an idolater and emptied of the truth, and senseless.

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Found: Hermas:143:15 @ For, if you pack wine or oil into a closet, and place an empty vessel among them, and again desire to unpack the closet, the vessel which you place there empty, empty in like manner you will find it. Thus also the empty prophets, whenever they come unto the spirits of righteous men, are found just such as they came.

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Found: Hermas:143:17 @ But do thou trust the Spirit that cometh from God, and hath power; but in the earthly and empty spirit put no trust at all; for in it there is no power, for it cometh from the devil.

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Found: Hermas:143:21 @ Thou seest then that the smallest things from above falling on the earth have great power. So likewise the divine Spirit coming from above is powerful. This Spirit therefore trust, but from the other hold aloof."

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Found: Hermas:245:2 @ These desires then are evil, and bring death to the servants of God. For this evil desire is a daughter of the devil. Ye must, therefore, abstain from the evil desires, that so abstaining ye may live unto God.

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Found: Hermas:245:5 @ Do thou therefore, when thou art crowned for thy victory over it, come to the desire of righteousness, and deliver to her the victor's prize which thou hast received, and serve her, according as she herself desireth. If thou serve the good desire, and art subject to her, thou shalt have power to master the evil desire, and to subject her, according as thou wilt."

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Found: Hermas:447:6 @ Be ye converted, ye that walk after the commandments of the devil, (the commandments which are so) difficult and bitter and wild and riotous; and fear not the devil, for there is no power in him against you.

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Found: Hermas:447:7 @ For I will be with you, I, the angel of repentance, who have the mastery over him. The devil hath fear alone, but his fear hath no force. Fear him not therefore; and he will flee from you."

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Found: Hermas:548:1 @ I say to him, "Sir, listen to a few words from me." "Say what thou wilt," saith he. "Man, Sir," I say, "is eager to keep the commandments of God, and there is no one that asketh not of the Lord that he may be strengthened in His commandments, and be subject to them; but the devil is hard and overmastereth them."

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Found: Hermas:649:2 @ Believe, therefore, on God, ye who by reason of your sins have despaired of your life, and are adding to your sins, and weighing down your life; for if ye turn unto the Lord with your whole heart, and work righteousness the remaining days of your life, and serve Him rightly according to His will, He will give healing to your former sins, and ye shall have power to master the works of the devil. But of the threatening of the devil fear not at all; for he is unstrung, like the sinews of a dead man.

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Found: Hermas:649:3 @ Hear me therefore, and fear Him, Who is able to do all things, to save and to destroy, and observe these commandments, and ye shall live unto God."

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Found: Hermas:150:2 @ He, therefore, that prepareth these things for this city does not purpose to return to his own city.

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Found: Hermas:150:4 @ Thou, therefor who hast fields and dwellings and many other possessions, when thou art cast out by him, what wilt thou do with thy field and thy house am all the other things that thou preparedst for thyself? For the lord of this country saith to thee justly, "Either conform to my laws, or depart from my country."

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Found: Hermas:150:6 @ Take heed therefore; as dwelling in a strange land prepare nothing more for thyself but a competency which is sufficient for thee, and make ready that, whensoever the master of this city may desire to cast thee out for thine opposition to his law, thou mayest go forth from his city and depart into thine own city and use thine own law joyfully, free from all insult.

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Found: Hermas:150:7 @ Take heed therefore, ye that serve God and have Him in your heart: work the "works of God being mindful of His commandments and of the promises which He made, and believe Him that He will perform them, if His commandments be kept.

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Found: Hermas:151:4 @ Thou seest then that the elm also beareth much fruit, not less than the vine, but rather more." How more, Sir?" say I. "Because," saith he, "the vine, when hanging upon the elm, bears its fruit in abundance, and in good condition; but, when spread on the ground, it beareth little fruit, and that rotten. This parable therefore is applicable to the servants of God, to poor and to rich alike."

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Found: Hermas:151:8 @ In the sight of men then the elm seemeth not to bear fruit, and they know not, neither perceive, that if there cometh a drought the elm having water nurtureth the vine, and the vine having a constant supply of water beareth fruit two fold, both for itself and for the elm. So likewise the poor, by interceding with the Lord for the rich, establish their riches, and again the rich, supplying their needs to the poor, establish their souls.

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Found: Hermas:152:1 @ He showed me many trees which had no leaves, but they seemed to me to be, as it were, withered; for they were all alike. And he saith to me; "Seest thou these trees?" "I see them, Sir," I say, "they are all alike, and are withered." He answered and said to me; "These trees that thou seest are they that dwell in this world."

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Found: Hermas:152:2 @ "Wherefore then, Sir," say I, "are they as if they were withered, and alike?" "Because," saith he, "neither the righteous are distinguishable, nor the sinners in this world, but they are alike. For this world is winter to the righteous, and they are not distinguishable, as they dwell with the sinners.

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Found: Hermas:152:3 @ For as in the winter the trees, having shed their leaves, are alike, and are not distinguishable, which are withered, and which alive, so also in this world neither the just nor the sinners are distinguishable, but they are all alike."

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Found: Hermas:153:1 @ He showed me many trees again, some of them sprouting, and others withered, and he saith to me; "Seest thou," saith he, "these trees?" "I see them, Sir," say I, "some of them sprouting, and others withered."

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Found: Hermas:153:4 @ But the Gentiles and the sinners, just as thou sawest the trees which were withered, even such shall they be found, withered and unfruitful in that world, and shall be burnt up as fuel, and shall be manifest, because their practice in their life hath been evil. For the sinners shall be burned, because they sinned and repented not; and the Gentiles shall be burned, because they knew not Him that created them.

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Found: Hermas:153:5 @ Do thou therefore bear fruit, that in that summer thy fruit may be known. But abstain from overmuch business, and thou shalt never fill into any sin. For they that busy themselves overmuch, sin much also, being distracted about their business, and in no wise serving their own Lord.

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Found: Hermas:153:8 @ If therefore thou doest these things, thou shalt be able to bear fruit unto the world to come; yea, and whosoever shall do these things, shall bear fruit."

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Found: Hermas:255:7 @ And he saith to them; "I promised this servant his freedom, if he should keep the commandment which I commanded him; but he kept my commandment and did a good work besides to my vineyard, and pleased me greatly. For this work therefore which he has done, I desire to make him joint-heir with my son, because, when the good thought struck him, he did not neglect it, but fulfilled it."

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Found: Hermas:558:1 @ "I told thee just now," saith he, "that thou art unscrupulous and importunate, in enquiring for the interpretations of the parables. But since thou art so obstinate, I will interpret to thee the parable of the estate and all the accompaniments thereof, that thou mayest make them known unto all. Hear now," saith he, "and understand them.

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Found: Hermas:659:5 @ The Holy Pre-existent Spirit. Which created the whole creation, God made to dwell in flesh that He desired. This flesh, therefore, in which the Holy Spirit dwelt, was subject unto the Spirit, walking honorably in holiness and purity, without in any way defiling the Spirit.

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Found: Hermas:659:7 @ He therefore took the son as adviser and the glorious angels also, that this flesh too, having served the Spirit unblamably, might have some place of sojourn, and might not seem to hare lost the reward for its service; for all flesh, which is found undefiled and unspotted, wherein the Holy Spirit dwelt, shall receive a reward.

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Found: Hermas:760:3 @ "But if, Sir," say I, "there has been any ignorance in times past, before these words were heard, how shall a man who has defiled his flesh be saved?" "For the former deeds of ignorance," saith he, "God alone hath power to give healing; for all authority is His.

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Found: Hermas:262:3 @ I say to him, "Sir, I comprehend not what means "unto death," and what "unto corruption". "Listen," saith he; "the sheep which thou sawest gladsome and skipping about, these are they who have been turned asunder from God utterly, and have delivered themselves over to the lusts of this world. In these, therefore, there is not repentance unto life. For the Name of God is being blasphemed through them. The life of such persons is death.

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Found: Hermas:262:4 @ But the sheep, which thou sawest not skipping about, but feeding in one place, these are they that have delivered themselves over to acts of self-indulgence and deceit, but have not uttered any blasphemy against the Lord. These then have been corrupted from the truth. In these there is hope of repentance, wherein they can live. Corruption then hath hope of a possible renewal, but death hath eternal destruction."

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Found: Hermas:565:4 @ So being tormented and punished for the whole year, the man remembers at length the self-indulgence and deceit, and perceiveth that it is on their account that he is suffering these ills. Every man, therefore, that liveth in self-indulgence and is deceived, is tormented in this way because, though possessing lire, they have delivered themselves over unto death."

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Found: Hermas:565:5 @ "What kinds of self-indulgence, Sir," say I, "are harmful?" "Every action," saith he, "is self-indulgence to a man, which he does with pleasure; for the irascible man, when he gives the reins to his passion, is self-indulgent; and the adulterer and the drunkard and the slanderer and the liar and the miser and the defrauder and he that doeth things akin to these, giveth the reins to his peculiar passion; therefore he is self-indulgent in his action.

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Found: Hermas:565:6 @ All these habits of self-indulgence are harmful to the servants of God; on account of these deceits therefore they so suffer who are punished and tormented.

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Found: Hermas:565:7 @ But there are habits of self-indulgence like-wise which save men; for many are self-indulgent in doing good, being carried away by the pleasure it gives to themselves. This self-indulgence then is expedient for the servants of God, and bringeth life to a man of this disposition; but the harmful self-indulgences afore-mentioned bring to men torments and punishments; and if they continue in them and repent not, they bring death upon themselves."

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Found: Hermas:166:2 @ "Listen," saith he. "Thy sins are many, yet not so many that thou shouldest be delivered over to this angel; but thy house has committed great iniquities and sins, and the glorious angel was embittered at their deeds, and for this cause he bade thee be afflicted for a certain time, that they also might repent and cleanse themselves from every lust of this world. When therefore they shall repent and be cleansed, then shall the angel of punishment depart."

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Found: Hermas:167:2 @ And by the willow there stood an angel of the Lord, glorious and very tall, having a great sickle, and he was lopping branches from the willow, and giving them to the people that sheltered beneath the willow; and he gave them little rods about a cubit long.

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Found: Hermas:167:6 @ From some he received the rods withered and eaten as it were by grubs: the angel ordered those who gave up rods like these to stand apart.

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Found: Hermas:167:7 @ And others gave them up withered, but not grub-eaten; and these again he ordered to stand apart.

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Found: Hermas:167:8 @ And others gave them up half-withered; these also stood apart.

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Found: Hermas:167:9 @ And others gave up their rods half-withered and with cracks; these also stood apart.

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Found: Hermas:167:10 @ And others gave up their rods green and with cracks; these also stood apart. And others gave up their rods one half withered and one half green; these also stood apart.

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Found: Hermas:167:11 @ And others brought their rods two parts of the rod green, and the third part withered; these also stood apart. And others gave them up two parts withered, and the third part green; these also stood apart.

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Found: Hermas:167:12 @ And others gave up their rods nearly all green, but a very small portion of their rods was withered, just the end; but they had cracks in them; these also stood apart.

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Found: Hermas:167:13 @ And in those of others there was a very small portion green, but the rest of the rods was withered; these also stood apart.

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Found: Hermas:268:6 @ And, after the angel had departed, the shepherd saith to me; "Let us take the rods of all and plant them, to see whether any of them shall be able to live." I say unto him, "Sir, these withered things, how can they live?"

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Found: Hermas:369:1 @ I say to him; "Sir, inform me what this tree is. For I am perplexed herewith, because, though so many branches were cut off, the tree is sound, and nothing appears to have been cut from it; I am therefore perplexed thereat."

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Found: Hermas:369:3 @ but the great and glorious angel is Michael, who hath the power over this people and is their captain. For this is he that putteth the law into the hearts of the believers; therefore he himself inspecteth them to whom he gave it, to see whether they have observed it.

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Found: Hermas:470:3 @ He saith to them; "Let each man pluck out his own rod, and bring it to me." Those gave them up first, who had the withered and chipped rods, and they were found accordingly withered and chipped. He ordered them to stand apart.

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Found: Hermas:470:4 @ Then those gave them up, who had the withered but not chipped; and some of them gave up the rods green, and others withered and chipped as by grubs. Those then that gave them up green he ordered to stand apart; but those that gave them up withered and chipped he ordered to stand with the first.

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Found: Hermas:470:5 @ Then those gave them up who had the half-withered and with cracks; and many of them gave them up green and without cracks; and some gave them up green and with shoots, and fruits on the shoots, such as those had who went into the tower crowned; and some gave them up withered and eaten, and some withered and uneaten, and some such as they were, half-withered and with cracks. He ordered them to stand each one apart, some in their proper ranks, and others apart.

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Found: Hermas:571:2 @ And those gave them up likewise who had the one half green and the other half withered. The rods of some were found entirely green, of some half-withered, of some withered and eaten, and of some green and with shoots. These were all sent away each to his company.

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Found: Hermas:571:3 @ Then those gave them up who had two parts green and the third withered; many of them gave them up green, and many half-withered, and others withered and eaten. These all stood in their own company.

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Found: Hermas:571:4 @ Then those gave them up who had two parts withered and the third part green. Many of them gave them up half-withered, but some withered and eaten, others half-withered and with cracks, and a few green. These all stood in their own company.

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Found: Hermas:571:5 @ Then those gave them up who had their rods green, but a very small part withered and with cracks. Of these some gave them up green, and others green and with shoots. These also went away to their own company.

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Found: Hermas:571:6 @ Then those gave them up who had a very small part green and the other parts withered. The rods of these were found for the most part green and with shoots and fruit on the shoots, and others altogether green. At these rods the shepherd rejoiced very greatly, because they were found so. And these went away each to his own company.

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Found: Hermas:672:4 @ "Listen," saith he; "those whose rods were found withered and grub-eaten, these are the renegades and traitors to the Church, that blasphemed the Lord in their sins, and still further were ashamed of the Name of the Lord, which was invoked upon them. These then perished altogether unto God. But thou seest how not one of them repented, although they heard the words which thou spakest to them, which I commanded thee. From men of this kind life departed.

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Found: Hermas:672:5 @ But those that gave up the withered and undecayed (rods), these also are near them; for they were hypocrites, and brought in strange doctrines, and perverted the servants of God, especially them that had sinned, not permitting them to repent, but persuading them with their foolish doctrines. These then have hope of repenting.

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Found: Hermas:773:1 @ "But as many as gave up (the rods) half-withered, and with cracks in them, hear also concerning these. Those whose rods were half-withered throughout are the double-minded; for they neither live nor are dead.

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Found: Hermas:773:2 @ But those that have them half-withered and cracks in them, these are both double-minded and slanderers, and are never at peace among themselves but always causing dissensions. Yet even to these," saith he, "repentance is given. Thou seest," saith he, "that some of them have repented; and there is still," saith he, "hope of repentance among them.

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Found: Hermas:773:5 @ Yet these also, when they heard my commandments, being good, purified themselves and repented quickly. They have their habitation, therefore, within the tower. But if any one shall again turn to dissension, he shall be cast out from the tower and shall lose his life.

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Found: Hermas:773:6 @ Life is for all those that keep the commandments of the Lord. But in the commandments there is nothing about first places, or about glory of any kind, but about long-suffering and humility in man. In such men, therefore, is the life of the Lord, but in factious and lawless men is death.

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Found: Hermas:874:1 @ "But they that gave up their rods half green and half withered, these are they that are mixed up in business and cleave not to the saints. Therefore the one half of them liveth, but the other half is dead.

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Found: Hermas:874:4 @ But they that have given up two parts green and the third part withered, these are they that have denied with manifold denials.

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Found: Hermas:874:5 @ Many of them therefore repented and departed to dwell inside the tower; but many utterly rebelled from God; these lost their life finally. And some of them were double-minded and caused dissensions. For these then there is repentance, if they repent speedily and continue not in their pleasures; but if they continue in their doings, they likewise procure for themselves death.

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Found: Hermas:975:1 @ "But they that have given up their rods two thirds withered and one third green, these are men who have been believers, but grew rich and became renowned among the Gentiles. They clothed themselves with great pride and became high-minded, and abandoned the truth and did not cleave to the righteous, but lived together after the manner of the Gentiles, and this path appeared the more pleasant unto them; yet they departed not from God, but continued in the faith, though they wrought not the works of the faith.

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Found: Hermas:975:2 @ Many of them therefore repented, and they had their habitation within the tower.

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Found: Hermas:975:3 @ But others at the last living with the Gentiles, and being corrupted by the vain opinions of the Gentiles, departed from God, and worked the works of the Gentiles. These therefore were numbered with the Gentiles.

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Found: Hermas:975:4 @ But others of them were doubtful-minded, not hoping to be saved by reason of the deeds that they had done; and others were double-minded and made divisions among themselves. For these then that were double-minded by reason of their doings there is still repentance; but their repentance ought to be speedy, that their dwelling may be within the tower; but for those who repent not, but continue in their pleasures, death is nigh.

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Found: Hermas:1076:1 @ "But they that gave up their rods green, yet with the extreme ends withered and with cracks; these were found at all times good and faithful and glorious in the sight of God, but they sinned to a very slight degree by reason of little desires and because they had somewhat against one another. But, when they heard my words, the greater part quickly repented, and their dwelling was assigned within the tower.

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Found: Hermas:1076:2 @ But some of them were double-minded, and some being double-minded made a greater dissension. In these then there is still a hope of repentance, because they were found always good; and hardly shall one of them die.

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Found: Hermas:1076:3 @ But they that gave up their rods withered, yet with a very small part green, these are they that believed, but practiced the works of lawlessness. Still they never separated from God, but bore the Name gladly, and gladly received into their houses the servants of God. So hearing of this repentance they repented without wavering, and they practice all excellence and righteousness.

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Found: Hermas:178:6 @ the fourth had the vegetation half-withered, the upper part of the grass green, but the part by the roots withered, and some of the grass became withered, whenever the sun had scorched it;

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Found: Hermas:178:7 @ the fifth mountain had green grass and was rugged; the sixth mountain was full with clefts throughout, some small and some great, and the clefts had vegetation, but the grass was not very luxuriant, but rather as if it had been withered;

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Found: Hermas:178:10 @ the eleventh mountain was thickly wooded all over, and the trees thereon were very productive, decked with divers kinds of fruits, so that one seeing them would desire to eat of their fruits. The twelfth mountain was altogether white and its aspect was cheerful; and the mountain was most beauteous in itself.

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Found: Hermas:279:7 @ What is behind thee thou canst not see, but what is before thee thou beholdest. The things therefore which thou canst not see, let alone, and trouble not thyself (about them; but the things which thou seest, these master, and be not over curious about the rest; but I will explain unto thee all things whatsoever I shall show thee. Have an eye therefore to what remaineth."

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Found: Hermas:380:1 @ I saw six men come, tall and glorious and alike in appearance and they summoned a multitude of men. And the others also which came were tall men and handsome and powerful. And the six men ordered them to build a tower above the gate. And there arose a great noise from those men who had come to build the tower, as they ran hither and thither round the gate.

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Found: Hermas:380:3 @ And the six men ordered stones to come up from a certain deep place, and to go to the building of the tower. And there went up ten stones square and polished, not hewn from a quarry.

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Found: Hermas:481:8 @ And they say to the men who were bringing the stones in; "Abstain for your parts altogether from handing in stones for the building; but place them by the tower, that the virgins may carry them through the gate, and hand them in for the building. For if," say they, they be not carried in through the gate by the hands of these virgins, they cannot change their colors. Labor not therefore," say they, "in vain."

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Found: Hermas:582:1 @ And the building was finished on that day, yet was not the tower finally completed, for it was to be carried up still higher; and there was a cessation in the building. And the six men ordered the builders to retire for a short time all of them, and to rest; but the virgins they ordered not to retire from the tower. And methought the virgins were left to guard the tower.

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Found: Hermas:582:6 @ And after a few days we came to the place where we had sat, and he saith to me, "Let us go to the tower; for the owner of the tower cometh to inspect it." And we came to the tower, and there was no one at all by it, save the virgins alone.

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Found: Hermas:582:7 @ And the shepherd asked the virgins whether the master of the tower had arrived. And they said that he would be there directly to inspect the building.

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Found: Hermas:683:7 @ And the plain was dug, and stones were found there bright and square, but some of them too were round. And all the stones which there were anywhere in that plain were brought every one of them, and were carried through the gate by the virgins.

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Found: Hermas:885:3 @ Then he began to inspect those that had the cracks; and of these he shaped many, and he ordered them to be carried away by the hands of the virgins for the building. And they were placed towards the outside, because they were found to be sounder. But the rest could not be shaped owing to the number of the cracks. For this reason therefore they were cast aside from the building of the tower.

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Found: Hermas:986:4 @ But the rest, which remained over, were taken up, and put aside into the plain whence they were brought; they were not however cast away, "Because," saith he, there remaineth still a little of the tower to be builded. And the master of the tower is exceedingly anxious that these stones be fitted into the building, for they are very bright."

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Found: Hermas:986:6 @ and they took them up joyfully, and carried away all the stones and put them in the place whence they had been taken. And after all the stones had been taken up, and not a single stone still lay round the tower, the shepherd saith unto me; "Let us go round the tower, and see that there is no defect in it." And I proceeded to go round it with him.

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Found: Hermas:1188:7 @ For the virgins spread their linen tunics on the ground, and made me lie down in the midst of them, and they did nothing else but pray; and I prayed with them without ceasing, and not less than they. And the virgins rejoiced that I so prayed. And I stayed there with the virgins until the morning till the second hour.

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Found: Hermas:1289:3 @ "Because," saith he, "He was made manifest in the last days of the consummation; therefore the gate was made recent, that they which are to be saved may enter through it into the kingdom of God.

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Found: Hermas:1289:6 @ Didst thou see," saith he, "the multitude that is building the tower?" "I saw it, Sir," say I. "They," saith he, are all glorious angels. With these then the Lord is walled around. But the gate is the Son of God; there is this one entrance only to the Lord. No one then shall enter in unto Him otherwise than through His Son.

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Found: Hermas:1390:2 @ "And these virgins, who are they?" "They," saith he, "are holy spirits; and no man can otherwise be found in the kingdom of God, unless these shall clothe him with their garment; for if thou receive only the name, but receive not the garment from them, thou profitest nothing. For these virgins are powers of the Son of God. If therefore thou bear the Name, and bear not His power, thou shalt bear His Name to none effect.

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Found: Hermas:13[90^:2 @ "They shall enter," saith he, "if they shall put away the works of these women, and take again the power of the virgins, and walk in their works. For this is the reason why there was also a cessation in the building, that, if these repent, they may go into the building of the tower; but if they repent not, then others will go, and these shall be cast away finally."

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Found: Hermas:1794:4 @ "Because," saith he, "all the nations that dwell under heaven, when they heard and believed, were called by the one name of the Son of God. So having received the seal, they had one understanding and one mind, and one faith became theirs and one love, and they bore the spirits of the virgins along with the Name; therefore the building of the tower became of one color, even bright as the sun.

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Found: Hermas:1895:2 @ If then he that ought to do good committeth wickedness, does he not seem to do greater wickedness than the man that knoweth not God? Therefore they that have not known God, and commit wickedness, are condemned to death; but they that have known God and seen His mighty works, and yet commit wickedness, shall receive a double punishment, and shall die eternally. In this way therefore shall the Church of God be purified.

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Found: Hermas:1895:3 @ And as thou sawest the stones removed from the tower and delivered over to the evil spirits, they too shall be cast out; and there shall be one body of them that are purified, just as the tower, after it had been purified, became made as it were of one stone. Thus shall it be with the Church of God also, after she hath been purified, and the wicked and hypocrites and blasphemers and double-minded and they that commit various kinds of wickedness have been cast out.

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Found: Hermas:1996:1 @ "From the first mountain, which was black, they that have believed are such as these; rebels and blasphemers against the Lord, and betrayers of the servants of God. For these there is no repentance, but there is death. For this cause also they are black; for their race is lawless.

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Found: Hermas:1996:2 @ And from the second mountain, the bare one, they that believed are such as these; hypocrites and teachers of wickedness. And these then are like the former in not having the fruit of righteousness. For, even as their mountain is unfruitful, so likewise such men as these have a name indeed, but they are void of the faith, and there is no fruit of truth in them. For these then repentance is offered, if they repent quickly; but if they delay, they will have their death with the former."

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Found: Hermas:2097:2 @ These then, that are mixed up in many and various business affairs, cleave not to the servants of God, but go astray, being choked by their affairs, but the wealthy unwillingly cleave to the servants of God, fearing lest they may be asked for something by them. Such men therefore shall hardly enter into the kingdom of God.

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Found: Hermas:20[97^:1 @ "And from the fourth mountain, which had much vegetation, the upper part of the grass green and the part towards the roots withered, and some of it dried up by the sun, they that believed are such as these; the double-minded, and they that have the Lord on their lips, but have Him not in their heart.

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Found: Hermas:20[97^:2 @ Therefore their foundations are dry and without power, and their words only live, but their works are dead. Such men are neither alive nor dead. They are, therefore, like unto the double-minded; for the double-minded are neither green nor withered; for they are neither alive nor dead.

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Found: Hermas:20[97^:3 @ For as their grass was withered up when it saw the sun, so also the double-minded, when they hear of tribulation, through their cowardice worship idols and are ashamed of the name of their Lord.

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Found: Hermas:23100:1 @ "But they that believed from the sixth mountain, which had clefts great and small, and in the clefts herbage withered, are such as these;

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Found: Hermas:23100:2 @ they that have the small clefts, these are they that have aught against one another, and from their backbitings they are withered in the faith; but many of these repented Yea, and the rest shall repent, when they hear my commandments; for their backbitings are but small, and they shall quickly repent.

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Found: Hermas:23100:3 @ But they that have great clefts, these are persistent in their backbitings and bear grudges, nursing wrath against one another. These then were thrown right away from the tower and rejected from its building. Such persons therefore shall with difficulty live.

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Found: Hermas:25102:2 @ apostles and teachers, who preached unto the whole world, and who taught the word of the Lord in soberness and purity, and kept back no part at all for evil desire, but walked always in righteousness and truth, even as also they received the Holy Spirit. Such therefore shall have their entrance with the angels.

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Found: Hermas:26103:2 @ they that have the spots are deacons that exercised their office ill, and plundered the livelihood of widows and orphans, and made gain for themselves from the ministrations which they had received to perform. If then they abide in the same evil desire, they are dead and there is no hope of life for them; but if they turn again and fulfill their ministrations in purity, it shall be possible for them to live.

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Found: Hermas:26103:6 @ And this I say not in reference to these days, that a man after denying should receive repentance; for it is impossible for him to be saved who shall now deny his Lord; but for those who denied Him long ago repentance seemeth to be possible. If a man therefore will repent, let him do so speedily before the tower is completed; but if not, he shall be destroyed by the women and put to death.

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Found: Hermas:27104:3 @ These all then shall be sheltered by the Lord for ever. They therefore that have done these things are glorious in the sight of God, and their place is even now with the angels, if they shall continue unto the end serving the Lord.

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Found: Hermas:27[104^:5 @ See to it, therefore, ye who entertain this idea, lest this design remain in your hearts, and ye die unto God. But ye that suffer for the Name's sake ought to glorify God, because God deemed you worthy that ye should bear this name, and that all your sins should be healed.

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Found: Hermas:27[104^:6 @ Reckon yourselves blessed therefore; yea, rather think that ye have done a great work, if any of you shall suffer for God's sake. The Lord bestoweth life upon you, and ye percieved it not; for your sins weighed you down, and if ye had not suffered for the Name of the Lord, ye had died unto God by reason of your sins.

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Found: Hermas:27[104_:3 @ As many of you therefore as shall continue," saith he, "and shall be as infants not having guile, shall be glorious even than all them that have been mentioned before; for all infants are glorious in the sight of God, and stand first in His sight. Blessed then are ye, as many as have put away wickedness from you, and have clothed yourselves in guilelessness: ye shall live unto God cheifest of all."

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Found: Hermas:27[104`:5 @ When therefore the Lord percieved their mind, that they could favor the truth, and likewise remain good, He commanded their possessions to be cut off from them, yet not to be taken away altogether, so that they might be able to do some good with that which hath been left to them, and might live unto God for that they come of a good kind. So therefore they have been cut away a little, and placed in the building of this tower".

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Found: Hermas:32109:1 @ "Amend yourselves therefore, while the tower is still in course of building.

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Found: Hermas:32109:2 @ The Lord dwelleth in men that love peace; for to Him peace is dear; but from the contentious and them that are given up to wickedness He keepeth afar off. Restore therefore to Him your spirit whole as ye received it.

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Found: Hermas:32109:4 @ If therefore thou art thus vexed in the matter of thy garment, and complainest because thou receivest it not back whole, what thinkest thou the Lord will do to thee, He, Who gave thee the spirit whole, and thou hast made it absolutely useless, so that it cannot be of any use at all to its Lord? For its use began to be useless, when it was corrupted by thee. Will not therefore the Lord of this spirit for this thy deed punish thee with death?"

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Found: Hermas:33110:3 @ "Listen now," said he, "concerning them. These are they that have heard my commandments now, and have practiced repentance with their whole heart. So when the Lord saw that their repentance was good and pure, and that they could continue therein, he ordered their former sins to be blotted out. These shapes then were their former sins, and they have been chiseled away that they might not appear."

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Found: Hermas:1111:2 @ "I delivered thee," said he, "and thy house to this shepherd, that thou mightest be protected by him." "True, Sir," I said "If therefore," said he, "thou desirest to be protected from all annoyance and all cruelty, to have also success in every good work and word, and all the power of righteousness, walk in his commandments, which I have given thee, and thou shalt be able to get the mastery over all wickedness.

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Found: Hermas:2112:2 @ "I myself know," said he, "that thou hast done nothing out of order, nor art about to do so. And so I speak these things unto thee, that thou mayest persevere. For he hath given a good account of thee unto me. Thou therefore shalt speak these words to others, that they too who have practiced or shall practice repentance may be of the same mind as thou art; and he may give a good report of them to me, and I unto the Lord."

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Found: Hermas:2112:4 @ "Continue therefore," said he, "in this ministry, and complete it unto the end. For whosoever fulfill his commandments shall have life; yea such a man (shall have) great honor with the Lord. But whosoever keep not his commandments, fly from their life, and oppose him, and follow not his commandments, but deliver themselves over to death; and each one becometh guilty of his own blood. But I bid thee obey these commandments, and thou shalt have a remedy for thy sins.

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Found: Hermas:3113:1 @ "Moreover, I have sent these virgins unto thee, that they may dwell with thee; for I have seen that they are friendly towards thee. Thou hast them therefore as helpers, that thou mayest be the better able to keep his commandments; for it is impossible that these commandments be kept without the help of these virgins. I see too that they are glad to be with thee. But I will charge them that they depart not at all from thy house.

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Found: Hermas:3113:2 @ Only do thou purify thy house; for in a clean house they will gladly dwell. For they are clean and chaste and industrious, and have favor in the sight of the Lord. If, therefore, they shall find thy house pure, they will continue with thee; but if the slightest pollution arise, they will depart from thy house at once. For these virgins love not pollution in any form."

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Found: Hermas:4114:1 @ He said then to me, "Quit you like a man in this ministry; declare to every man the mighty works of the Lord, and thou shalt have favor in this ministry. Whosoever therefore shall walk in these commandments, shall live and be happy in his life; but whosoever shall neglect them, shall not live, and shall be unhappy in his life.

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Found: Hermas:4114:3 @ Whosoever therefore rescueth from penury a life of this kind, winneth great joy for himself. For he who is harassed by misfortune of this sort is afflicted and tortured with equal torment as one who is in chains. For many men on account of calamities of this kind, because they can bear them no longer, lay violent hands on themselves. He then who knows the calamity of a man of this kind and rescueth him not, committeth great sin, and becometh guilty of the man's blood.

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Found: Hermas:4114:4 @ Do therefore good works, whoever of you have received (benefits) from the Lord, lest, while ye delay to do them, the building of the tower be completed. For it is on your account that the work of the building has been interrupted. Unless then ye hasten to do right, the tower will be completed, and ye shut out."

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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:2:2 @ May I have joy of you always, if so be I an worthy of it. It is therefore meet for you in every way to glorify Jesus Christ who glorified you; that being perfectly joined together in one submission, submitting yourselves to your bishop and presbytery, ye may be sanctified in all things.

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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:3:2 @ But, since love doth not suffer me to be silent concerning you, therefore was I forward to exhort you, that ye run in harmony with the mind of God: for Jesus Christ also, our inseparable life, is the mind of the Father, even as the bishops that are settled in the farthest parts of the earth are in the mind of Jesus Christ.

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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:4:2 @ And do ye, each and all, form yourselves into a chorus, that being harmonious in concord and taking the key note of God ye may in unison sing with one voice through Jesus Christ unto the Father, that He may both hear you and acknowledge you by your good deeds to be members of His Son. It is therefore profitable for you to be in blameless unity, that ye may also be partakers of God always.

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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:5:3 @ Whosoever therefore cometh not to the congregation, he doth thereby show his pride and hath separated himself; for it is written, God resisteth the proud. Let us therefore be careful not to resist the bishop, that by our submission we may give ourselves to God.

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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:6:1 @ And in proportion as a man seeth that his bishop is silent, let him fear him the more. For every one whom the Master of the household sendeth to be steward over His own house, we ought so to receive as Him that sent him. Plainly therefore we ought to regard the bishop as the Lord Himself.

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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:8:1 @ Let no one therefore deceive you, as indeed ye are not deceived, seeing that ye belong wholly to God. For when no lust is established in you, which hath power to torment you, then truly ye live after God. I devote myself for you, and I dedicate myself as an offering for the church of you Ephesians which is famous unto all the ages.

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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:10:1 @ And pray ye also without ceasing for the rest of mankind (for there is in them a hope of repentance), that they may find God. Therefore permit them to take lessons at least from your works.

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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:13:1 @ Do your diligence therefore to meet together more frequently for thanksgiving to God and for His glory. For when ye meet together frequently, the powers of Satan are cast down; and his mischief cometh to nought in the concord of your faith.

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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:15:1 @ It is better to keep silence and to be, than to talk and not to be. It is a fine thing to teach, if the speaker practice. Now there is one teacher, who spake and it came to pass: yea and even the things which He hath done in silence are worthy of the Father.

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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:15:3 @ Nothing is hidden from the Lord, but even our secrets are nigh unto Him. Let us therefore do all things as knowing that He dwelleth in us, to the end that we may be His temples and He Himself may be in us as our God. This is so, and it will also be made clear in our sight from the love which we rightly bear towards Him.

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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:19:2 @ A star shone forth in the heaven above all the stars; and its light was unutterable, and its strangeness caused amazement; and all the rest of the constellations with the sun and moon formed themselves into a chorus about the star; but the star itself far outshone them all; and there was perplexity to know whence came this strange appearance which was so unlike them.

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Found: IgnatiusEphesians:21:2 @ Pray for the church which is in Syria, whence I am led a prisoner to Rome-- I who am the very last of the faithful there; according as I was counted worthy to be found unto the honor of God. Fare ye well in God the Father and in Jesus Christ our common hope.

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Found: IgnatiusMagnesians:1:2 @ For being counted worthy to bear a most godly name, in these bonds, which I carry about, I sing the praise of the churches; and I pray that there may be in them union of the flesh and of the spirit which are Jesus Christ's, our never-failing life--and union of faith and of love which is preferred before all things, and--what is more than all--an union with Jesus and with the Father, in whom if we endure patiently all the despite of the prince of this world and escape therefrom, we shall attain unto God.

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Found: IgnatiusMagnesians:3:2 @ For the honor therefore of Him that desired you, it is meet that ye should be obedient without dissimulation. For a man doth not so much deceive this bishop who is seen, as cheat that other who is invisible; and in such a case he must reckon not with flesh but with God who knoweth the hidden things.

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Found: IgnatiusMagnesians:4:1 @ It is therefore meet that we not only be called Christians, but also be such; even as some persons have the bishop's name on their lips, but in everything act apart from him. Such men appear to me not to keep a good conscience, for as much as they do not assemble themselves together lawfully according to commandment.

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Found: IgnatiusMagnesians:5:1 @ Seeing then that all things have an end, and these two life and death--are set before us together, and each man shall go to his own place; for just as there are two coinages, the one of God and the other of the world, and each of them hath its proper stamp impressed upon it, the unbelievers the stamp of this world, but the faithful in love the stamp of God the Father through Jesus Christ, through whom unless of our own free choice we accept to die unto His passion, His life is not in us:--

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Found: IgnatiusMagnesians:6:2 @ Therefore do ye all study conformity to God and pay reverence one to another; and let no man regard his neighbor after the flesh, but love ye one another in Jesus Christ always. Let there be nothing among you which shall have power to divide you, but be ye united with the bishop and with them that preside over you as an ensample and a lesson of incorruptibility.

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Found: IgnatiusMagnesians:7:1 @ Therefore as the Lord did nothing without the Father, being united with Him, either by Himself or by the Apostles, so neither do ye anything without the bishop and the presbyters. And attempt not to think anything right for yourselves apart from others: but let there be one prayer in common, one supplication, one mind, one hope, in love and in joy unblamable, which is Jesus Christ, than whom there is nothing better.

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Found: IgnatiusMagnesians:8:2 @ for the divine prophets lived after Christ Jesus. For this cause also they were persecuted, being inspired by His grace to the end that they which are disobedient might be fully persuaded that there is one God who manifested Himself through Jesus Christ His Son, who is His Word that proceeded from silence, who in all things was well-pleasing unto Him that sent Him.

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Found: IgnatiusMagnesians:10:3 @ It is monstrous to talk of Jesus Christ and to practice Judaism. For Christianity did not believe in Judaism, but Judaism in Christianity, wherein every tongue believed and was gathered together unto God.

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Found: IgnatiusMagnesians:13:1 @ Do your diligence therefore that ye be confirmed in the ordinances of the Lord and of the Apostles, that ye may prosper in all things whatsoever ye do in flesh and spirit, by faith and by love, in the Son and Father and in the Spirit, in the beginning and in the end, with your revered bishop, and with the fitly wreathed spiritual circlet of your presbytery, and with the deacons who walk after God.

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Found: IgnatiusMagnesians:13:2 @ Be obedient to the bishop and to one another, as Jesus Christ was to the Father according to the flesh, and as the Apostles were to Christ and to the Father, that there may be union both of flesh and of spirit.

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Found: IgnatiusPhiladelphians:2:1 @ As children therefore of the light of the truth, shun division and wrong doctrines; and where the shepherd is, there follow ye as sheep.

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Found: IgnatiusPhiladelphians:4:1 @ Be ye careful therefore to obscene one eucharist (for there is one flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ and one cup unto union in His blood; there is one altar, as there is one bishop, together with the presbytery and the deacons my fellow-servants), that whatsoever ye do, ye may do it after God.

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Found: IgnatiusPhiladelphians:6:2 @ Shun ye therefore the wicked arts and plottings of the prince of this world, lest haply ye be crushed by his devices, and wax weak in your love. But assemble yourselves all together with undivided heart. And

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Found: IgnatiusPhiladelphians:7:2 @ Howbeit there were those who suspected me of saying this, because I knew beforehand of the division of certain persons. But He in whom I am bound is my witness that I learned it not from flesh of man; it was the preaching of the Spirit who spake on this wise; Do nothing without the bishop; keep your flesh as a temple of God; cherish union; shun divisions; be imitators of Jesus Christ, as He Himself also was of His Father.

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Found: IgnatiusPhiladelphians:8:1 @ I therefore did my own part, as a man composed unto union. But where there is division and anger, there God abideth not. Now the Lord forgiveth all men when they repent, if repenting they return to the unity of God and to the council of the bishop. I have faith in the grace of Jesus Christ, who shall strike off every fetter from you; and I entreat you,

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Found: IgnatiusPolycarp:1:2 @ whereof I would fain have joy in God. I exhort thee in the grace wherewith thou art clothed to press forward in thy course and to exhort all men that they may be saved. Vindicate thine office in all diligence of flesh and of spirit. Have a care for union, than which there is nothing better. Bear all men, as the Lord also beareth thee. Suffer all men in love, as also thou doest.

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Found: IgnatiusPolycarp:1:3 @ Give thyself to unceasing prayers. Ask for larger wisdom than thou hast. Be watchful, and keep thy spirit from slumbering. Speak to each man severally after the manner of God. Bear the maladies of all, as a perfect athlete. where there is more toil, there is much gain.

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Found: IgnatiusPolycarp:6:2 @ Please the Captain in whose army ye serve, from whom also ye will receive your pay. Let none of you be found a deserter. Let your baptism abide with you as your shield; your faith as your helmet; your love as your spear; your patience as your body armor. Let your works be your deposits, that ye may receive your assets due to you. Be ye therefore long-suffering one with another in gentleness, as God is with you. May I have joy of you always.

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Found: IgnatiusRomans:2:2 @ Nay grant me nothing more than that I be poured out a libation to God, while there is still an altar ready; that forming yourselves into a chorus in love ye may sing to the Father in Jesus Christ, for that God hath vouchsafed that the bishop from Syria should be found in the West, having summoned him from the East. It is good to set from the world unto God, that I may rise unto Him.

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Found: IgnatiusRomans:7:1 @ The prince of this world would fain tear me in pieces and corrupt my mind to Godward. Let not any of you therefore who are near abet him. Rather stand ye on my side, that is on God's side. Speak not of Jesus Christ and withal desire the world. Let not envy have a home in you.

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Found: IgnatiusRomans:7:2 @ Even though I myself, when I am with you, should beseech you, obey me not; but rather give credence to these things which I write to you. For I write to you in the midst of life, yet lusting after death. My lust hath been crucified, and there is no fire of material longing in me, but only water living and speaking in me, saying within me, Come to the Father.

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Found: IgnatiusSmyrneans:5:2 @ For what profit is it to me, if a man praiseth me, but blasphemeth my Lord, not confessing that He was a bearer of flesh? Yet he that affirmeth not this, doth thereby deny Him altogether, being himself a bearer of a corpse.

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Found: IgnatiusSmyrneans:7:1 @ They therefore that gainsay the good gift of God perish by their questionings. But it were expedient for them to have love, that they may also rise again.

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Found: IgnatiusSmyrneans:7:2 @ It is therefore meet that ye should abstain from such, and not speak of them either privately or in public; but should give heed to the Prophets, and especially to the Gospel, wherein the passion is shown unto us and the resurrection is accomplished.

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Found: IgnatiusSmyrneans:8:2 @ Wheresoever the bishop shall appear, there let the people be; even as where Jesus may be, there is the universal Church. It is not lawful apart from the bishop either to baptize or to hold a love-feast; but whatsoever he shall approve, this is well-pleasing also to God; that everything which ye do may be sure and valid.

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Found: IgnatiusSmyrneans:9:2 @ May all things therefore abound unto you in grace, for ye are worthy. Ye refreshed me in all things, and Jesus Christ shall refresh you. In my absence and in my presence ye cherished me. May God recompense you; for whose sake if ye endure all things, ye shall attain unto Him.

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Found: IgnatiusSmyrneans:11:3 @ It seemed to me therefore a fitting thing that ye should send one of your own people with a letter, that he might join with them in giving glory for the calm which by God's will had overtaken them, and because they were already reaching a haven through your prayers. Seeing ye are perfect, let your counsels also be perfect; for if ye desire to do well, God is ready to grant the means.

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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:2:1 @ Blessed therefore and noble are all the martyrdoms which have taken place according to the will of God (for it behoveth us to be very scrupulous and to assign to God the power over all things).

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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:4:1 @ But one man, Quintus by name, a Phrygian newly arrived from Phrygia, when he saw the wild beasts, turned coward. He it was who had forced himself and some others to come forward of their own free will. This man the proconsul by much entreaty persuaded to swear the oath and to offer incense. For this cause therefore, brethren, we praise not those who deliver themselves up, since the Gospel doth not so teach us.

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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:5:1 @ Now the glorious Polycarp at the first, when he heard it, so far from being dismayed, was desirous of remaining in town; but the greater part persuaded him to withdraw. So he withdrew to a farm not far distant from the city; and there he stayed with a few companions, doing nothing else night and day but praying for all men and for the churches throughout the world; for this was his constant habit.

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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:7:2 @ So when he heard that they were come, he went down and conversed with them, the bystanders marvelling at his age and his constancy, and wondering how there should be so much eagerness for the apprehension of an old man like him. Thereupon forthwith he gave orders that a table should be spread for them to eat and drink at that hour, as much as they desired. And he persuaded them to grant him an hour that he might pray unmolested;

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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:8:2 @ And he was met by Herod the captain of police and his father Nicetes, who also removed him to their carriage and tried to prevail upon him, seating themselves by his side and saying, 'Why what harm is there in saying, Caesar is Lord, and offering incense', with more to this effect, 'and saving thyself?' But he at first gave them no answer. When however they persisted, he said, 'I am not going to do what ye counsel me.'

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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:8:3 @ Then they, failing to persuade him, uttered threatening words and made him dismount with speed, so that he bruised his shin, as he got down from the carriage. And without even turning round, he went on his way promptly and with speed, as if nothing had happened to him, being taken to the stadium; there being such a tumult in the stadium that no man's voice could be so much as heard.

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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:9:1 @ But as Polycarp entered into the stadium, a voice came to him from heaven; 'Be strong, Polycarp, and play the man.' And no one saw the speaker, but those of our people who were present heard the voice. And at length, when he was brought up, there was a great tumult, for they heard that Polycarp had been apprehended.

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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:9:2 @ When then he was brought before him, the proconsul enquired whether he were the man. And on his confessing that he was, he tried to persuade him to a denial saying, 'Have respect to thine age,' and other things in accordance therewith, as it is their wont to say; 'Swear by the genius of Caesar; repent and say, Away with the atheists.' Then Polycarp with solemn countenance looked upon the whole multitude of lawless heathen that were in the stadium, and waved his hand to them; and groaning and looking up to heaven he said, 'Away with the atheists.'

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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:15:2 @ The fire, making the appearance of a vault, like the sail of a vessel filled by the wind, made a wall round about the body of the martyr; and it was there in the midst, not like flesh burning, but like a loaf in the oven or like gold and silver refined in a furnace. For we perceived such a fragrant smell, as if it were the wafted odor of frankincense or some other precious spice.

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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:16:1 @ So at length the lawless men, seeing that his body could not be consumed by the fire, ordered an executioner to go up to him and stab him with a dagger. And when he had done this, there came forth a dove and a quantity of blood, so that it extinguished the fire; and all the multitude marvelled that there should be so great a difference between the unbelievers and the elect.

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Found: MartyrdomPolycarp:18:1 @ The centurion therefore, seeing the opposition raised on the part of the Jews, set him in the midst and burnt him after their custom.

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Found: Polycarp:4:1 @ But the love of money is the beginning of all troubles. Knowing therefore that we brought nothing into the world neither can we carry anything out, let us arm ourselves with the armor of righteousness, and let us teach ourselves first to walk in the commandment of the Lord;

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Found: Polycarp:6:3 @ Let us therefore so serve Him with fear and all reverence, as He himself gave commandment and the Apostles who preached the Gospel to us and the prophets who proclaimed beforehand the coming of our Lord; being zealous as touching that which is good, abstaining from offenses and from the false brethren and from them that bear the name of the Lord in hypocrisy, who lead foolish men astray.

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Found: Polycarp:7:1 @ For every one who shall not confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is antichrist: and whosoever shall not confess the testimony of the Cross, is of the devil; and whosoever shall pervert the oracles of the Lord to his own lusts and say that there is neither resurrection nor judgment, that man is the firstborn of Satan.

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Found: Polycarp:8:1 @ Let us therefore without ceasing hold fast by our hope and by the earnest of our righteousness, which is Jesus Christ who took up our sins in His own body upon the tree, who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth, but for our sakes He endured all things, that we might live in Him.

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Found: Polycarp:8:2 @ Let us therefore become imitators of His endurance; and if we should suffer for His name's sake, let us glorify Him. For He gave this example to us in His own person, and we believed this.

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Found: Polycarp:9:1 @ I exhort you all therefore to be obedient unto the word of righteousness and to practice all endurance, which also ye saw with your own eyes in the blessed Ignatius and Zosimus and Rufus, yea and in others also who came from among yourselves, as well as in Paul himself and the rest of the Apostles;

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Found: Polycarp:10:1 @ Stand fast therefore in these things and follow the example of the Lord, being firm in the faith and immovable, in love of the brotherhood kindly affectioned one to another, partners with the truth, forestalling one another in the gentleness of the Lord, despising no man.

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Found: Polycarp:11:1 @ I was exceedingly grieved for Valens, who aforetime was a presbyter among you, because he is so ignorant of the office which was given unto him. I warn you therefore that ye refrain from covetousness, and that ye be pure and truthful. Refrain from all evil.

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Found: Polycarp:11:3 @ But I have not found any such thing in you, neither have heard thereof, among whom the blessed Paul labored, who were his letters in the beginning. For he boasteth of you in all those churches which alone at that time knew God; for we knew Him not as yet.

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Found: Polycarp:11:4 @ Therefore I am exceedingly grieved for him and for his wife, unto whom may the Lord grant true repentance. Be ye therefore yourselves also sober herein, and hold not such as enemies but restore them as frail and erring members, that ye may save the whole body of you. For so doing, ye do edify one another.

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FAITHOFJESUSDEVOTION.txt
Found: June15 @ strkjv@Mark:11:20-26 The Withered Fig Tree journal:June15

WEBSTUDYLINKS.txt
Found: Info @ Growing collection of web links to bible study resources gathered from various sources.

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JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Luke:6:6-11 @ Jesus By Miracle - Healing a man with a withered hand

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Found: strkjv@Matthew:12:9-13 @ Jesus By Miracle - Healing a man with a withered hand

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Found: strkjv@Mark:3:1-5 @ Jesus By Miracle - Healing a man with a withered hand

JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Luke:10:2 @ Jesus By Command - pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest

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Found: strkjv@Luke:11:35 @ Jesus By Command - Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness

JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Luke:12:40 @ Jesus By Command - Be ye therefore ready also

JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Luke:21:36 @ Jesus By Command - Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape

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Found: strkjv@Luke:21:8 @ Jesus By Command - Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come...go ye not therefore after them

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Found: strkjv@Luke:6:36 @ Jesus By Command - Be ye therefore merciful

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Found: strkjv@Luke:8:18 @ Jesus By Command - Take heed therefore how ye hear

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Found: strkjv@Mark:13:35-37 @ Jesus By Command - Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh

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Found: strkjv@Matthew:10:11-13 @ Jesus By Command - enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence...come into an house, salute it...let your peace come upon it...let your peace return to you

JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Matthew:10:16 @ Jesus By Command - be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves

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Found: strkjv@Matthew:28:19 @ Jesus By Command - Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name...

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Found: strkjv@Matthew:5:48 @ Jesus By Command - Be ye therefore perfect

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Found: strkjv@Matthew:6:9 @ Jesus By Command - After this manner therefore pray ye

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Found: strkjv@Revelation:2:5 @ Jesus By Command - Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works

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Found: strkjv@Revelation:3:2-3 @ Jesus By Command - Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain...Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent

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Found: strkjv@Matthew:7:9 @ Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? - Jesus By Question

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Found: strkjv@Matthew:12:11 @ What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out? - Jesus By Question

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Found: strkjv@Matthew:21:40 @ When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? - Jesus By Question

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Found: strkjv@Mark:12:9 @ What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? - Jesus By Question

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Found: strkjv@Mark:12:24 @ Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God? - Jesus By Question

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Found: strkjv@Mark:12:37 @ David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? - Jesus By Question

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Found: strkjv@Luke:7:42 @ Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most? - Jesus By Question

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Found: strkjv@Luke:17:17 @ Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? - Jesus By Question

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Found: strkjv@Luke:20:15 @ What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them? - Jesus By Question

JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@Luke:20:44 @ David therefore calleth him Lord, how is he then his son? - Jesus By Question

JESUSBYINDEX.txt
Found: strkjv@John:11:9 @ Are there not twelve hours in the day? - Jesus By Question

FAITHOFJESUSDEVOTION2.txt
Found: June15 @ Mark:11:20-26 The Withered Fig Tree

BIBLEBYSTORYLINE.txt
Found: strkjv@Mark:11:20-26 @ The Withered Fig Tree

NGRAMGOSPELALPHA.txt
Found: filter:NT-GOSPEL And, behold, there was a @ 7

NGRAMGOSPELALPHA.txt
Found: filter:NT-GOSPEL there shall be @ 16

NGRAMGOSPELALPHA.txt
Found: filter:NT-GOSPEL there shall be weeping and gnashing @ 4

NGRAMGOSPELALPHA.txt
Found: filter:NT-GOSPEL there was a @ 27

CHRISTIANPODCASTS.csv
Found: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheGoodNews , The Good News , Religion and Spirituality , gathered.com; bestpodcasts; caden; cadenfabrizio; calling; christian; christianity; christianpodcast; encourage; encouragement; encouragingpodcast; fabrizio; fai , PODCAST , http://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/a/0/c/8/a0c8a10a5c3f7f3d/TGCL-podcast.jpg , Australian English; ,

NATURALREMEDY.csv
Found: Camomile Essential Oil,Properties: Traditionally/ camomile essential oil has been used for almost anything you can imagine/ including its use as an antispasmodic/ antiseptic/ antibiotic/ antidepressant/ antineuralgic/ antiphlogistic/ carminative/ cholagogue/ cicatrisant/ emenagogue/ analgesic/ febrifuge/ hepatic/ sedative/ nervine/ digestive/ tonic/ bactericidal/ sudorific/ stomachic/ antiinflammatory/ anti-infectious/ vermifuge/ and vulnerary.,Health benefits: Camomile essential oil is known to cure spasms/ protect wounds from becoming septic and infected/ curb biotic growth and infections/ fight depression and uplift mood/ cure neuralgic pain by reducing swelling in the effected vessels/ and soothe inflammation from fever. It also eliminates gases/ promotes discharge of bile/ helps decrease visibility of scars/ opens up obstructed menses and regulates them/ cures pain/ reduces fever/ and is good for the liver. Furthermore/ camomile essential oil sedates inflammation and hyper-reactions/ improves nervous system health/ aids digestion/ reduces spasms/ kills bacteria/ increases perspiration/ improves digestion/ and fights infections. It is one of the most popular and useful essential oils out there!,,ESSENTIAL OIL

NATURALREMEDY.csv
Found: Cardamom Essential Oil,Properties: It is considered an antispasmodic/ and it also neutralizes the adverse effects of chemotherapy/ reduces nausea. It is used as an antiseptic/ antimicrobial/ aphrodisiac/ astringent/ digestive/ stomachic/ stimulant/ and diuretic agent.,Health benefits: It has been known to cure spasms/ fight nausea/ protect wounds and incisions/ curb microbial growth/ increase libido/ contract gums/ promote digestion/ and maintain stomach health. It stimulates secretions and other functions/ increases urination and thereby removes extra salt/ bile/ water/ toxins and fat from the body.,,ESSENTIAL OIL

ESSENTIALOILS.csv
Found: Camomile Essential Oil,Properties: Traditionally/ camomile essential oil has been used for almost anything you can imagine/ including its use as an antispasmodic/ antiseptic/ antibiotic/ antidepressant/ antineuralgic/ antiphlogistic/ carminative/ cholagogue/ cicatrisant/ emenagogue/ analgesic/ febrifuge/ hepatic/ sedative/ nervine/ digestive/ tonic/ bactericidal/ sudorific/ stomachic/ antiinflammatory/ anti-infectious/ vermifuge/ and vulnerary.,Health benefits: Camomile essential oil is known to cure spasms/ protect wounds from becoming septic and infected/ curb biotic growth and infections/ fight depression and uplift mood/ cure neuralgic pain by reducing swelling in the effected vessels/ and soothe inflammation from fever. It also eliminates gases/ promotes discharge of bile/ helps decrease visibility of scars/ opens up obstructed menses and regulates them/ cures pain/ reduces fever/ and is good for the liver. Furthermore/ camomile essential oil sedates inflammation and hyper-reactions/ improves nervous system health/ aids digestion/ reduces spasms/ kills bacteria/ increases perspiration/ improves digestion/ and fights infections. It is one of the most popular and useful essential oils out there!,

ESSENTIALOILS.csv
Found: Cardamom Essential Oil,Properties: It is considered an antispasmodic/ and it also neutralizes the adverse effects of chemotherapy/ reduces nausea. It is used as an antiseptic/ antimicrobial/ aphrodisiac/ astringent/ digestive/ stomachic/ stimulant/ and diuretic agent.,Health benefits: It has been known to cure spasms/ fight nausea/ protect wounds and incisions/ curb microbial growth/ increase libido/ contract gums/ promote digestion/ and maintain stomach health. It stimulates secretions and other functions/ increases urination and thereby removes extra salt/ bile/ water/ toxins and fat from the body.,

FOJDD.csv
Found: June15,105[Mark_11_20-26],strkjv@Mark:11:20-26,The Withered Fig Tree