The One Year Bible KJV (156 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
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 The former treatise have I [Luke] made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
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 until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:
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 to whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
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 and, being assembled together with
them,
commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but
wait for the promise of the Father, which,
saith he,
ye have heard of me.
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For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
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 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
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 And he said unto them,
It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
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But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
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 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
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 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
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 which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
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 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.
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 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James
the son
of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas
the brother
of James.
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 These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
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 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)
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 Men
and
brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.
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 For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.
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 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
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 And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.
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 For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.
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 Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
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 beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.
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 And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.
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 And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all
men,
shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,
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 that he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.
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 And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
A Song of degrees.
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 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2
 My help
cometh
from the L
ORD
, which made heaven and earth.
3
 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
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 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5
 The L
ORD
is
thy keeper: the L
ORD
is
thy shade upon thy right hand.
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 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
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 The L
ORD
shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
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 The L
ORD
shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
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 Pride
goeth
before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
1
 And David spake unto the L
ORD
the words of this song in the day
that
the L
ORD
had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
2
 And he said, The L
ORD
is
my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
3
 The God of my rock; in him will I trust:
he is
my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
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 I will call on the L
ORD
,
who is
worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
5
 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
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 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
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 In my distress I called upon the L
ORD
, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry
did enter
into his ears.
8
 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
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 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
10
 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness
was
under his feet.
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 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.
12
 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters,
and
thick clouds of the skies.
13
 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
14
 The L
ORD
thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.
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 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
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 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the L
ORD
, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
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 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;
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 He delivered me from my strong enemy,
and
from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
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 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the L
ORD
was my stay.
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 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
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 The L
ORD
rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
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 For I have kept the ways of the L
ORD
, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
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 For all his judgments
were
before me: and
as for
his statutes, I did not depart from them.
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 I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.
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 Therefore the L
ORD
hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.
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 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful,
and
with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.
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 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
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 And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes
are
upon the haughty,
that
thou mayest bring
them
down.
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 For thou
art
my lamp, O L
ORD
: and the L
ORD
will lighten my darkness.
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 For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.
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As for
God, his way
is
perfect; the word of the L
ORD
is
tried: he
is
a buckler to all them that trust in him.
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 For who
is
God, save the L
ORD
? and who
is
a rock, save our God?
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 God
is
my strength
and
power: And he maketh my way perfect.
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 He maketh my feet like hinds'
feet:
and setteth me upon my high places.
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 He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
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 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.
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 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.
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 I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.
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 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
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 For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.
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 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
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 They looked, but
there was
none to save;
even
unto the L
ORD
, but he answered them not.
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 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street,
and
did spread them abroad.
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 Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me
to be
head of the heathen: a people
which
I knew not shall serve me.
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 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.
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 Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
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 The L
ORD
liveth; and blessed
be
my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
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 It
is
God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me,
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 And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
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 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O L
ORD
, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.
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He is
the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.
23:
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 Now these
be
the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man
who was
raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
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 The Spirit of the L
ORD
spake by me, and his word
was
in my tongue.
3
 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men
must be
just, ruling in the fear of God.
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 And
he shall be
as the light of the morning,
when
the sun riseth,
even
a morning without clouds;
as
the tender grass
springing
out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
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 Although my house
be
not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all
things,
and sure: for
this is
all my salvation, and all
my
desire, although he make
it
not to grow.
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 But
the sons
of Belial
shall be
all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
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 but the man
that
shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the
same
place.
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 These
be
the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same
was
Adino the Eznite:
he lift up his spear
against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.
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 And after him
was
Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite,
one
of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines
that
were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away:
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 he arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the L
ORD
wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.
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 And after him
was
Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.
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 But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the L
ORD
wrought a great victory.
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 And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.
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 And David
was
then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines
was
then
in
Bethlehem.
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 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which
is
by the gate!
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 And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that
was
by the gate, and took
it,
and brought
it
to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the L
ORD
.
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 And he said, Be it far from me, O L
ORD
, that I should do this:
is not this
the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.
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 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred,
and
slew
them,
and had the name among three.
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 Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the
first
three.
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 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:
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 and he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
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 These
things
did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three mighty men.
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 He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the
first
three. And David set him over his guard.