The One Year Bible KJV (262 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
23
 But before faith came, we [Jews] were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
24
 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster
to bring us
unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25
 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
26
 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27
 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28
 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
29
 And if ye
be
Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
4:
1
 Now I say,
That
the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
2
 but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
3
 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
4
 but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
5
 to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6
 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
7
 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
8
 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
9
 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
10
 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
11
 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
12
 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I
am;
for I
am
as ye
are:
ye have not injured me at all.
13
 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
14
 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God,
even
as Christ Jesus.
15
 Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if
it had been
possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
16
 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
17
 They zealously affect you,
but
not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
18
 But
it is
good to be zealously affected always in
a
good
thing,
and not only when I am present with you.
19
 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
20
 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
21
 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
22
 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
23
 But he
who was
of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman
was
by promise.
24
 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
25
 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
26
 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
27
 For it is written, Rejoice,
thou
barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
28
 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
29
 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him
that was born
after the Spirit, even so
it is
now.
30
 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
31
 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.
1
 Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him
cometh
my salvation.
2
 He only
is
my rock and my salvation;
he is
my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
3
 How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall
shall ye be, and as
a tottering fence.
4
 They only consult to cast
him
down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
5
 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation
is
from him.
6
 He only
is
my rock and my salvation:
he is
my defence; I shall not be moved.
7
 In God
is
my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength,
and
my refuge,
is
in God.
8
 Trust in him at all times;
ye
people, pour out your heart before him: God
is
a refuge for us. Selah.
9
 Surely men of low degree
are
vanity,
and
men of high degree
are
a lie: to be laid in the balance, they
are
altogether
lighter
than vanity.
10
 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart
upon them.
11
 God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power
belongeth
unto God.
12
 Also unto thee, O Lord,
belongeth
mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.
19
 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
20
 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
21
 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe
a man
with rags.
12
 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
13
 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
14
 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water
withal
out of the pit.
15
 For thus saith the Lord G
OD
, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
16
 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
17
 One thousand
shall flee
at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
18
 And therefore will the L
ORD
wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the L
ORD
is
a God of judgment: blessed
are
all they that wait for him.
19
 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
20
 And
though
the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
21
 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This
is
the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
22
 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
23
 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
24
 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
25
 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers
and
streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
26
 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the L
ORD
bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27
 Behold, the name of the L
ORD
cometh from far, burning
with
his anger, and the burden
thereof is
heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
28
 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and
there shall be
a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing
them
to err.
29
 Ye shall have a song, as in the night
when
a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the L
ORD
, to the mighty One of Israel.
30
 And the L
ORD
shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of
his
anger, and
with
the flame of a devouring fire,
with
scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
31
 For through the voice of the L
ORD
shall the Assyrian be beaten down,
which
smote with a rod.
32
 And
in
every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the L
ORD
shall lay upon him,
it
shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
33
 For Tophet
is
ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made
it
deep
and
large: the pile thereof
is
fire and much wood; the breath of the L
ORD
, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
31:
1
 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because
they are
many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the L
ORD
!
2
 Yet he also
is
wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
3
 Now the Egyptians
are
men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the L
ORD
shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
4
 For thus hath the L
ORD
spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him,
he
will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the L
ORD
of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
5
 As birds flying, so will the L
ORD
of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver
it; and
passing over he will preserve it.
6
 Turn ye unto
him from
whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
7
 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you
for
a sin.
8
 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
9
 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the L
ORD
, whose fire
is
in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
32:
1
 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
2
 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
3
 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
4
 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
5
 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said
to be
bountiful.
6
 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the L
ORD
, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
7
 The instruments also of the churl
are
evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
8
 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
9
 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
10
 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
11
 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird
sackcloth
upon
your
loins.
12
 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
13
 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns
and
briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy
in
the joyous city:
14
 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
15
 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
16
 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
17
 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
18
 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
19
 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
20
 Blessed
are
ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth
thither
the feet of the ox and the ass.
33:
1
 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou
wast
not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled;
and
when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
2
 O L
ORD
, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
3
 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
4
 And your spoil shall be gathered
like
the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
5
 The L
ORD
is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
6
 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times,
and
strength of salvation: the fear of the L
ORD
is
his treasure.
7
 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
8
 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
9
 The earth mourneth
and
languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed
and
hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off
their fruits.