The One Year Bible KJV (284 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
9
 For ye remember, brethren, our [Paul's and his coworkers'] labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
10
 Ye
are
witnesses, and God
also,
how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
11
 as ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father
doth
his children,
12
 that ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
13
 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received
it
not
as
the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
14
 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they
have
of the Jews:
15
 who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
16
 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
17
 But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
18
 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
19
 For what
is
our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing?
Are
not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
20
 For ye are our glory and joy.
3:
1
 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;
2
 and sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:
3
 that no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
4
 For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.
5
 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
6
 But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also
to see
you:
7
 therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:
8
 for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
9
 For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
10
 night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
11
 Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
12
 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all
men,
even as we
do
toward you:
13
 to the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim-Eduth, A Psalm of Asaph.
1
 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest
between
the cherubims, shine forth.
2
 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come
and
save us.
3
 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
4
 O L
ORD
God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
5
 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
6
 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
7
 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
8
 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
9
 Thou preparedst
room
before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
10
 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof
were like
the goodly cedars.
11
 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
12
 Why hast thou
then
broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
13
 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
14
 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
15
 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch
that
thou madest strong for thyself.
16
Â
It is
burned with fire,
it is
cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
17
 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man
whom
thou madest strong for thyself.
18
 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
19
 Turn us again, O L
ORD
God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
1
 These
are
also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
2
Â
It is
the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings
is
to search out a matter.
3
 The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings
is
unsearchable.
4
 Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.
5
 Take away the wicked
from
before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
16
 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the L
ORD
, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
17
 For mine eyes
are
upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
18
 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
19
 O L
ORD
, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and
things
wherein
there is
no profit.
20
 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they
are
no gods?
21
 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name
is
The L
ORD
.
17:
1
 The sin of Judah
is
written with a pen of iron,
and
with the point of a diamond:
it is
graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
2
 whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
3
 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance
and
all thy treasures to the spoil,
and
thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
4
 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger,
which
shall burn for ever.
5
 Thus saith the L
ORD
; Cursed
be
the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the L
ORD
.
6
 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness,
in
a salt land and not inhabited.
7
 Blessed
is
the man that trusteth in the L
ORD
, and whose hope the L
ORD
is.
8
 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and
that
spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
9
 The heart
is
deceitful above all
things,
and desperately wicked: who can know it?
10
 I the L
ORD
search the heart,
I
try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways,
and
according to the fruit of his doings.
11
Â
As
the partridge sitteth
on eggs,
and hatcheth
them
not;
so
he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
12
 A glorious high throne from the beginning
is
the place of our sanctuary.
13
 O L
ORD
, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed,
and
they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the L
ORD
, the fountain of living waters.
14
 Heal me, O L
ORD
, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou
art
my praise.
15
 Behold, they say unto me, Where
is
the word of the L
ORD
? let it come now.
16
 As for me, I have not hastened from
being
a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was
right
before thee.
17
 Be not a terror unto me: thou
art
my hope in the day of evil.
18
 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
19
 Thus said the L
ORD
unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;
20
 and say unto them, Hear ye the word of the L
ORD
, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:
21
 Thus saith the L
ORD
; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring
it
in by the gates of Jerusalem;
22
 neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
23
 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.
24
 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the L
ORD
, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;
25
 then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for ever.
26
 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the L
ORD
.
27
 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
18:
1
 The word which came to Jeremiah from the L
ORD
, saying,
2
 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
3
 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
4
 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make
it.
5
 Then the word of the L
ORD
came to me, saying,
6
 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the L
ORD
. Behold, as the clay
is
in the potter's hand, so
are
ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
7
Â
At what
instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy
it;
8
 if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
9
 And
at what
instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant
it;
10
 if it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
11
 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the L
ORD
; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
12
 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
13
 Therefore thus saith the L
ORD
; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
14
 Will
a man
leave the snow of Lebanon
which cometh
from the rock of the field?
or
shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?
15
 Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways
from
the ancient paths, to walk in paths,
in
a way not cast up;
16
 to make their land desolate,
and
a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
17
 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
18
 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
19
 Give heed to me, O L
ORD
, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
20
 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them,
and
to turn away thy wrath from them.
21
 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their
blood
by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and
be
widows; and let their men be put to death;
let
their young men
be
slain by the sword in battle.
22
 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
23
 Yet, L
ORD
, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay
me:
forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal
thus
with them in the time of thine anger.