The One Year Bible KJV (246 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
1
 We [Paul and his coworkers] then,
as
workers together
with him,
beseech
you
also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
2
 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now
is
the accepted time; behold, now
is
the day of salvation.)
3
 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
4
 but in all
things
approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
5
 in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
6
 by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
7
 by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
8
 by honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and
yet
true;
9
 as unknown, and
yet
well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
10
 as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and
yet
possessing all things.
11
 O
ye
Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
12
 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
13
 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto
my
children,) be ye also enlarged.
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.
1
 God
is
our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
2
 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
3
Â
Though
the waters thereof roar
and
be troubled,
though
the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
4
Â
There is
a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy
place
of the tabernacles of the most High.
5
 God
is
in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her,
and that
right early.
6
 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
7
 The L
ORD
of hosts
is
with us; the God of Jacob
is
our refuge. Selah.
8
 Come, behold the works of the L
ORD
, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
9
 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
10
 Be still, and know that I
am
God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
11
 The L
ORD
of hosts
is
with us; the God of Jacob
is
our refuge. Selah.
15
 Foolishness
is
bound in the heart of a child;
but
the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
1
 So I [the Preacher] returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of
such as were
oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors
there was
power; but they had no comforter.
2
 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
3
 Yea, better
is he
than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
4
 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This
is
also vanity and vexation of spirit.
5
 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
6
 Better
is
an handful
with
quietness, than both the hands full
with
travail and vexation of spirit.
7
 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
8
 There is one
alone,
and
there is
not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet
is there
no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither
saith he,
For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This
is
also vanity, yea, it
is
a sore travail.
9
 Two
are
better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
10
 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him
that is
alone when he falleth; for
he hath
not another to help him up.
11
 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm
alone?
12
 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
13
 Better
is
a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
14
 For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also
he that is
born in his kingdom becometh poor.
15
 I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.
16
Â
There is
no end of all the people,
even
of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also
is
vanity and vexation of spirit.
5:
1
 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
2
 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter
any
thing before God: for God
is
in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
3
 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice
is known
by multitude of words.
4
 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for
he hath
no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
5
 Better
is it
that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
6
 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it
was
an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
7
 For in the multitude of dreams and many words
there are
also
divers
vanities: but fear thou God.
8
 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for
he that is
higher than the highest regardeth; and
there be
higher than they.
9
 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king
himself
is served by the field.
10
 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this
is
also vanity.
11
 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good
is there
to the owners thereof, saving the beholding
of them
with their eyes?
12
 The sleep of a labouring man
is
sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
13
 There is a sore evil
which
I have seen under the sun,
namely,
riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
14
 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and
there is
nothing in his hand.
15
 As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
16
 And this also
is
a sore evil,
that
in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
17
 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and
he hath
much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
18
 Behold
that
which I have seen:
it is
good and comely
for one
to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it
is
his portion.
19
 Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this
is
the gift of God.
20
 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth
him
in the joy of his heart.
6:
1
 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it
is
common among men:
2
 a man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this
is
vanity, and it
is
an evil disease.
3
 If a man beget an hundred
children,
and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also
that
he have no burial; I say,
that
an untimely birth
is
better than he.
4
 For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
5
 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known
any thing:
this hath more rest than the other.
6
 Yea, though he live a thousand years twice
told,
yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
7
 All the labour of man
is
for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
8
 For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
9
 Better
is
the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this
is
also vanity and vexation of spirit.
10
 That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it
is
man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
11
 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what
is
man the better?
12
 For who knoweth what
is
good for man in
this
life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
14
 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15
 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16
 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in
them;
and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17
 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean
thing;
and I will receive you,
18
 and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
7:
1
 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
2
 Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
3
 I speak not
this
to condemn
you:
for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with
you.
4
 Great
is
my boldness of speech toward you, great
is
my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
5
 For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without
were
fightings, within
were
fears.
6
 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
7
 and not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.