The One Year Bible KJV (279 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
18
 And he [Christ] is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all
things
he might have the preeminence.
19
 For it pleased
the Father
that in him should all fulness dwell;
20
 and, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him,
I say,
whether
they be
things in earth, or things in heaven.
21
 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in
your
mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
22
 in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
23
 if ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and
be
not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard,
and
which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
24
 who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
25
 whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
26
Â
even
the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
27
 to whom God would make known what
is
the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
28
 whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
29
 whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
2:
1
 For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and
for
them at Laodicea, and
for
as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
2
 that their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
3
 in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4
 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
5
 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.
6
 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord,
so
walk ye in him:
7
 rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph.
1
 I cried unto God with my voice,
even
unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.
2
 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
3
 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
4
 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
5
 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
6
 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
7
 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
8
 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth
his
promise fail for evermore?
9
 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
10
 And I said, This
is
my infirmity:
but I will remember
the years of the right hand of the most High.
11
 I will remember the works of the L
ORD
: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
12
 I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
13
 Thy way, O God,
is
in the sanctuary: who
is so
great a God as
our
God?
14
 Thou
art
the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.
15
 Thou hast with
thine
arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
16
 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
17
 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
18
 The voice of thy thunder
was
in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
19
 Thy way
is
in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
20
 Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
23
 These
things
also
belong
to the wise.
It is
not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
24
 He that saith unto the wicked, Thou
art
righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:
25
 But to them that rebuke
him
shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.
16
 Thus saith the L
ORD
, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where
is
the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk
therein.
17
 Also I set watchmen over you,
saying,
Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
18
 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what
is
among them.
19
 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people,
even
the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
20
 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings
are
not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
21
 Therefore thus saith the L
ORD
, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
22
 Thus saith the L
ORD
, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
23
 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they
are
cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
24
 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us,
and
pain, as of a woman in travail.
25
 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy
and
fear
is
on every side.
26
 O daughter of my people, gird
thee
with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning,
as for
an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
27
 I have set thee
for
a tower
and
a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
28
 They
are
all grievous revolters, walking with slanders:
they are
brass and iron; they
are
all corrupters.
29
 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
30
 Reprobate silver shall
men
call them, because the L
ORD
hath rejected them.
7:
1
 The word that came to Jeremiah from the L
ORD
, saying,
2
 Stand in the gate of the L
ORD
's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the L
ORD
, all
ye of
Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the L
ORD
.
3
 Thus saith the L
ORD
of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
4
 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the L
ORD
, The temple of the L
ORD
, The temple of the L
ORD
,
are
these.
5
 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
6
Â
if
ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
7
 then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
8
 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
9
 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
10
 and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
11
 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen
it,
saith the L
ORD
.
12
 But go ye now unto my place which
was
in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
13
 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the L
ORD
, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
14
 therefore will I do unto
this
house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
15
 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren,
even
the whole seed of Ephraim.
16
 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
17
 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18
 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead
their
dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
19
 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the L
ORD
:
do they
not
provoke
themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
20
 Therefore thus saith the Lord G
OD
; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
21
 Thus saith the L
ORD
of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
22
 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
23
 but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
24
 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels
and
in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
25
 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending
them:
26
 yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
27
 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.
28
 But thou shalt say unto them, This
is
a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the L
ORD
their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
29
 Cut off thine hair,
O Jerusalem,
and cast
it
away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the L
ORD
hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
30
 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the L
ORD
: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
31
 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which
is
in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded
them
not, neither came it into my heart.
32
 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the L
ORD
, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
33
 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray
them
away.
34
 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
8:
1
 At that time, saith the L
ORD
, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
2
 and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
3
 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the L
ORD
of hosts.
4
 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the L
ORD
; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
5
 Why
then
is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
6
 I hearkened and heard,
but
they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
7
 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the L
ORD
.