The One Year Bible KJV (236 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
1
 Moreover, brethren, I [Paul] declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2
 by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3
 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4
 and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
5
 and that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:
6
 after that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
7
 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.
8
 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
9
 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
10
 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which
was bestowed
upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
11
 Therefore whether
it were
I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
12
 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13
 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:
14
 and if Christ be not risen, then
is
our preaching vain, and your faith
is
also vain.
15
 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
16
 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
17
 and if Christ be not raised, your faith
is
vain; ye are yet in your sins.
18
 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
19
 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
20
 But now is Christ risen from the dead,
and
become the firstfruits of them that slept.
21
 For since by man
came
death, by man
came
also the resurrection of the dead.
22
 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
23
 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
24
 Then
cometh
the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
25
 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
26
 The last enemy
that
shall be destroyed
is
death.
27
 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under
him, it is
manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
28
 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.
1
 O L
ORD
, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
2
 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
3
Â
There is
no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither
is there any
rest in my bones because of my sin.
4
 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
5
 My wounds stink
and
are corrupt because of my foolishness.
6
 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
7
 For my loins are filled with a loathsome
disease:
and
there is
no soundness in my flesh.
8
 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
9
 Lord, all my desire
is
before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
10
 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
11
 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
12
 They also that seek after my life lay snares
for me:
and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
13
 But I, as a deaf
man,
heard not; and
I was
as a dumb man
that
openeth not his mouth.
14
 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth
are
no reproofs.
15
 For in thee, O L
ORD
, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
16
 For I said,
Hear me,
lest
otherwise
they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify
themselves
against me.
17
 For I
am
ready to halt, and my sorrow
is
continually before me.
18
 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
19
 But mine enemies
are
lively,
and
they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
20
 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow
the thing that
good
is.
21
 Forsake me not, O L
ORD
: O my God, be not far from me.
22
 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
28
 A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly.
29
 A wicked man hardeneth his face: but
as for
the upright, he directeth his way.
1
 And Job answered and said,
2
 No doubt but ye
are
the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
3
 But I have understanding as well as you; I
am
not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
4
 I am
as
one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright
man is
laughed to scorn.
5
 He that is ready to slip with
his
feet
is as
a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
6
 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth
abundantly.
7
 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
8
 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
9
 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the L
ORD
hath wrought this?
10
 In whose hand
is
the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
11
 Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
12
 With the ancient
is
wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
13
 With him
is
wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
14
 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
15
 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
16
 With him
is
strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver
are
his.
17
 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
18
 He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
19
 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
20
 He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
21
 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
22
 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
23
 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them
again.
24
 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness
where there is
no way.
25
 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like
a
drunken
man.
13:
1
 Lo, mine eye hath seen all
this,
mine ear hath heard and understood it.
2
 What ye know,
the same
do I know also: I
am
not inferior unto you.
3
 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
4
 But ye
are
forgers of lies, ye
are
all physicians of no value.
5
 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
6
 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7
 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
8
 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
9
 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye
so
mock him?
10
 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
11
 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
12
 Your remembrances
are
like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13
 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what
will.
14
 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
15
 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
16
 He also
shall be
my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
17
 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
18
 Behold now, I have ordered
my
cause; I know that I shall be justified.
19
 Who
is
he
that
will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
20
 Only do not two
things
unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
21
 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
22
 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
23
 How many
are
mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
24
 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
25
 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
26
 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
27
 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
28
 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
14:
1
 Man
that is
born of a woman
is
of few days, and full of trouble.
2
 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
3
 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
4
 Who can bring a clean
thing
out of an unclean? not one.
5
 Seeing his days
are
determined, the number of his months
are
with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
6
 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
7
 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
8
 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
9
Â
Yet
through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
10
 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where
is
he?
11
Â
As
the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
12
 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens
be
no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
13
 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14
 If a man die, shall he live
again?
all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
15
 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
16
 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
17
 My transgression
is
sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
18
 And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
19
 The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow
out
of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
20
 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
21
 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth
it
not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth
it
not of them.
22
 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
15:
1
 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
2
 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
3
 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
4
 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
5
 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
6
 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
7
Â
Art
thou the first man
that
was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
8
 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
9
 What knowest thou, that we know not?
what
understandest thou, which
is
not in us?
10
 With us
are
both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
11
Â
Are
the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
12
 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
13
 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest
such
words go out of thy mouth?
14
 What
is
man, that he should be clean? and
he which is
born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15
 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
16
 How much more abominable and filthy
is
man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
17
 I will shew thee, hear me; and that
which
I have seen I will declare;
18
 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid
it:
19
 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
20
 The wicked man travaileth with pain all
his
days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
21
 A dreadful sound
is
in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
22
 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
23
 He wandereth abroad for bread,
saying,
Where
is it?
he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24
 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
25
 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
26
 He runneth upon him,
even
on
his
neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
27
 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on
his
flanks.
28
 And he dwelleth in desolate cities,
and
in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
29
 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
30
 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
31
 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense.
32
 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
33
 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
34
 For the congregation of hypocrites
shall be
desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
35
 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.