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Then Job answered and said,… Then Job answered and said, I have heard many such things: miserable comforters {are} ye all{miserable: or, troublesome} Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? {vain…: Heb. words of wind} I also could speak as ye {do}: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. {But} I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage {your grief}. [Read More]

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius… Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, {tetrarch: or, governor of four provinces} Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wildernessAnd he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. [Read More]

And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon… And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed himAnd Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days. {mourned: Heb. wept} And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. [Read More]

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,… And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, {even} as unto babes in ChristI have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able {to bear it}, neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal: for whereas {there is} among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? [Read More]

Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,… Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? {vain..: Heb. knowledge of wind} Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. {castest…: Heb. makest void} {prayer: or, speech} For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. [Read More]

And it came to pass in those days, that there went… And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed{taxed: or, enrolled} ({And} this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. {taxed: or, enrolled} And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. [Read More]

And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves… And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you {that} which shall befall you in the last daysGather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. Reuben, thou {art} my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou {it}: he went up to my couch. [Read More]

And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with… And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of GodFor I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching {was} not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: {enticing: or, persuasible} That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. [Read More]

Man {that is} born of a woman {is} of few days, and… Man {that is} born of a woman {is} of few days, and full of trouble{few…: Heb. short of days} He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? Who can bring a clean {thing} out of an unclean? [Read More]

And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill… And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda; And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted ElisabethAnd it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed {art} thou among women, and blessed {is} the fruit of thy womb. [Read More]