The One Year Bible KJV (219 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
18
 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
19
 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
20
 Where
is
the wise? where
is
the scribe? where
is
the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21
 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
22
 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23
 but we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
24
 but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
25
 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26
 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble,
are called:
27
 but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
28
 and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen,
yea,
and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
29
 that no flesh should glory in his presence.
30
 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
31
 that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
2:
1
 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
2
 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3
 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
4
 And my speech and my preaching
was
not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5
 that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
7
 Hear, O L
ORD
,
when
I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
8
Â
When thou saidst,
Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, L
ORD
, will I seek.
9
 Hide not thy face
far
from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
10
 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the L
ORD
will take me up.
11
 Teach me thy way, O L
ORD
, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.
12
 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
13
Â
I had fainted,
unless I had believed to see the goodness of the L
ORD
in the land of the living.
14
 Wait on the L
ORD
: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the L
ORD
.
22
 Say not thou, I will recompense evil;
but
wait on the L
ORD
, and he shall save thee.
23
 Divers weights
are
an abomination unto the L
ORD
; and a false balance
is
not good.
1
 And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel
were
in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
2
 Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as
it is
written in the law of Moses the man of God.
3
 And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear
was
upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the L
ORD
,
even
burnt offerings morning and evening.
4
 They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as
it is
written, and
offered
the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;
5
 and afterward
offered
the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the L
ORD
that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto the L
ORD
.
6
 From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the L
ORD
. But the foundation of the temple of the L
ORD
was not
yet
laid.
7
 They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
8
 Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the L
ORD
.
9
 Then stood Jeshua
with
his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad,
with
their sons and their brethren the Levites.
10
 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the L
ORD
, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the L
ORD
, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.
11
 And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the L
ORD
; because
he is
good, for his mercy
endureth
for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the L
ORD
, because the foundation of the house of the L
ORD
was laid.
12
 But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers,
who were
ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:
13
 so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.
4:
1
 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the L
ORD
God of Israel;
2
 then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye
do;
and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.
3
 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the L
ORD
God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.
4
 Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,
5
 and hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
6
 And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they
unto him
an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
7
 And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter
was
written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.
8
 Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
9
 then
wrote
Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites,
and
the Elamites,
10
 and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnapper brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest
that are
on this side the river, and at such a time.
11
 This
is
the copy of the letter that they sent unto him,
even
unto Artaxerxes the king; Thy servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time.
12
 Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls
thereof,
and joined the foundations.
13
 Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls set up
again, then
will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and
so
thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings.
14
 Now because we have maintenance from
the king's
palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent and certified the king;
15
 that search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city
is
a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.
16
 We certify the king that, if this city be builded
again,
and the walls thereof set up, by this means thou shalt have no portion on this side the river.
17
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Then
sent the king an answer unto Rehum the chancellor, and
to
Shimshai the scribe, and
to
the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and
unto
the rest beyond the river, Peace, and at such a time.
18
 The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me.
19
 And I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and
that
rebellion and sedition have been made therein.
20
 There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have ruled over all
countries
beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom, was paid unto them.
21
 Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until
another
commandment shall be given from me.
22
 Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?
23
 Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter
was
read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
6
 Howbeit we [Paul and his coworkers] speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
7
 but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery,
even
the hidden
wisdom,
which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
8
 which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known
it,
they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9
 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
10
 But God hath revealed
them
unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11
 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12
 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13
 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14
 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know
them,
because they are spiritually discerned.
15
 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
16
 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
3:
1
 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal,
even
as unto babes in Christ.
2
 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able
to bear it,
neither yet now are ye able.
3
 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas
there is
among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
4
 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I
am
of Apollos; are ye not carnal?