The One Year Bible KJV (285 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
1
 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort
you
by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God,
so
ye would abound more and more.
2
 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
3
 For this is the will of God,
even
your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
4
 that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
5
 not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
6
 that no
man
go beyond and defraud his brother in
any
matter: because that the Lord
is
the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
7
 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
8
 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
9
 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
10
 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
11
 and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
12
 that ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and
that
ye may have lack of nothing.
13
 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14
 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15
 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive
and
remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16
 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17
 then we which are alive
and
remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18
 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
5:
1
 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
2
 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3
 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
To the chief Musician upon Gittith,
A Psalm
of Asaph.
1
 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2
 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3
 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4
 For this
was
a statute for Israel,
and
a law of the God of Jacob.
5
 This he ordained in Joseph
for
a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt:
where
I heard a language
that
I understood not.
6
 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
7
 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
8
 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
9
 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
10
 I
am
the L
ORD
thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11
 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
12
 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust:
and
they walked in their own counsels.
13
 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me,
and
Israel had walked in my ways!
14
 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
15
 The haters of the L
ORD
should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
16
 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
6
 Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great
men:
7
 For better
it is
that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.
8
 Go not forth hastily to strive, lest
thou know not
what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
1
 Thus saith the L
ORD
, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and
take
of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;
2
 and go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which
is
by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,
3
 and say, Hear ye the word of the L
ORD
, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the L
ORD
of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
4
 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
5
 they have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire
for
burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake
it,
neither came
it
into my mind:
6
 therefore, behold, the days come, saith the L
ORD
, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
7
 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
8
 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
9
 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
10
 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee.
11
 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the L
ORD
of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as
one
breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury
them
in Tophet, till
there be
no place to bury.
12
 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the L
ORD
, and to the inhabitants thereof, and
even
make this city as Tophet:
13
 and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.
14
 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the L
ORD
had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the L
ORD
's house; and said to all the people,
15
 Thus saith the L
ORD
of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.
20:
1
 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who
was
also chief governor in the house of the L
ORD
, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.
2
 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that
were
in the high gate of Benjamin, which
was
by the house of the L
ORD
.
3
 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The L
ORD
hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor-missabib.
4
 For thus saith the L
ORD
, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold
it:
and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
5
 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.
6
 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.
7
 O L
ORD
, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.
8
 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the L
ORD
was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
9
 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But
his word
was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not
stay.
10
 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report,
say they,
and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting,
saying,
Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
11
 But the L
ORD
is
with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper:
their
everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
12
 But, O L
ORD
of hosts, that triest the righteous,
and
seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.
13
 Sing unto the L
ORD
, praise ye the L
ORD
: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
14
 Cursed
be
the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
15
 Cursed
be
the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
16
 And let that man be as the cities which the L
ORD
overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
17
 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb
to be
always great
with me.
18
 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
21:
1
 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the L
ORD
, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,
2
 Inquire, I pray thee, of the L
ORD
for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the L
ORD
will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.
3
 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:
4
 Thus saith the L
ORD
God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that
are
in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and
against
the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.
5
 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.
6
 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
7
 And afterward, saith the L
ORD
, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
8
 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the L
ORD
; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.
9
 He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
10
 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the L
ORD
: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
11
 And touching the house of the king of Judah,
say,
Hear ye the word of the L
ORD
;
12
 O house of David, thus saith the L
ORD
; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver
him that is
spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench
it,
because of the evil of your doings.
13
 Behold, I
am
against thee, O inhabitant of the valley,
and
rock of the plain, saith the L
ORD
; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?
14
 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the L
ORD
: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.