Ecclesiastes 11 Cross References - Darby

¹ Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days. ² Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. ³ If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. ⁴ He that observeth the wind will not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds will not reap. ⁵ As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, how the bones [grow] in the womb of her that is with child, even so thou knowest not the work of God who maketh all. ⁶ In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand; for thou knowest not which shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good. ⁷ Now the light is sweet, and pleasant is it to the eyes to see the sun; ⁸ but if a man live many years, [and] rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many: all that cometh is vanity. ⁹ Rejoice, young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know that for all these [things] God will bring thee into judgment. ¹⁰ Then remove discontent from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for childhood and youth are vanity.

⁶ And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a pleasure for the eyes, and the tree was to be desired to give intelligence; and she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

² that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took themselves wives of all that they chose.

³⁰ But the soul that doeth ought with a high hand, whether born in the land, or a stranger, he reproacheth Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

³⁹ and it shall be unto you for a tassel, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of Jehovah, and do them; and that ye seek not after [the lusts of] your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye go a whoring;

³² And the Angel of Jehovah said to him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, it was I who came forth to withstand thee, for the way [thou walkest in] is for ruin before me.

⁷ If there be amongst you a poor man, any one of thy brethren in one of thy gates, in thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy brother in need; ⁸ but thou shalt open thy hand bountifully unto him, and shalt certainly lend him on pledge what is sufficient for his need, [in that] which he lacketh. ⁹ Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry against thee to Jehovah, and it be sin in thee. ¹⁰ Thou shalt bountifully give unto him, and thy heart shall not be evil-disposed when thou givest unto him; because for this thing Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thy works, and in all the business of thy hand. ¹¹ For the needy shall never cease from within the land; therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thy hand bountifully unto thy brother, to thy poor and to thy needy, in thy land.

¹⁹ and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to sweep away the drunken with the thirsty.

²⁹ Oh that they had been wise! they would have understood this, They would have considered their latter end!

² And it came to pass at evening time that David arose from off his couch, and walked upon the roof of the king`s house; and from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful; ³ and David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Urijah the Hittite? ⁴ And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her; and she had purified herself from her uncleanness; and she returned to her house.

¹² And it shall come to pass when I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of Jehovah shall carry thee whither I know not; and when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he will kill me; and I thy servant fear Jehovah from my youth.

²⁷ And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god; for he is meditating, or gone aside, or he is on a journey; perhaps he sleeps, and will awake.

⁴⁵ And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heavens became black [with] clouds and wind, and there was a great pour of rain. And Ahab got on the chariot, and went to Jizreel.

¹⁵ And he came to the king. And the king said to him, Micah, shall we go against Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he said to him, Go up, and prosper; for Jehovah will give it into the hand of the king.

¹⁰ And he said to them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions to them for whom nothing is prepared; for the day is holy to our Lord; and be not grieved, for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.

¹⁹ Therefore the Jews of the villages that dwell in the country towns make the fourteenth of the month Adar a day of joy and feasting, and a good day, and on which they send portions one to another.

²² as the days on which the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month that was turned to them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

⁹ Who doeth great things and unsearchable, marvellous things without number;

¹⁹ He will deliver thee in six troubles, and in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

²² A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as thick darkness.

²⁶ For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth;

¹⁰ But a man dieth, and is prostrate; yea, man expireth, and where is he?

²³ He wandereth abroad for bread, -- where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

¹⁸ He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

¹¹ His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

⁵ The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof; ⁶ Sheol is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering. ⁷ He stretcheth out the north over empty space, he hangeth the earth upon nothing; ⁸ He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them. ⁹ He covereth the face of his throne, he spreadeth his cloud upon it. ¹⁰ He hath traced a fixed circle over the waters, unto the confines of light and darkness. ¹¹ The pillars of the heavens tremble and are astonished at his rebuke. ¹² He stirreth up the sea by his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab. ¹³ By his Spirit the heavens are adorned; his hand hath formed the fleeing serpent. ¹⁴ Lo, these are the borders of his ways; but what a whisper of a word do we hear of him! And the thunder of his power, who can understand?

⁷ If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;

²⁸ He hath delivered my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall see the light.

³⁰ To bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

²⁴ Remember that thou magnify his work, which men celebrate. ²⁵ All men look at it; man beholdeth [it] afar off. ²⁶ Lo, ?God is great, and we comprehend [him] not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. ²⁷ For he draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth, ²⁸ Which the skies pour down [and] drop upon man abundantly. ²⁹ But can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the crashing of his pavilion? ³⁰ Lo, he spreadeth his light around him, and covereth the bottom of the sea. ³¹ For with them he judgeth the peoples; he giveth food in abundance. ³² [His] hands he covereth with lightning, and commandeth it where it is to strike. ³³ His thundering declareth concerning him; the cattle even, concerning its coming.

²³ The Almighty, we cannot find him out: excellent in power, and in judgment, and in abundance of justice, he doth not afflict.

⁴ Where wast thou when I founded the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding. ⁵ Who set the measures thereof -- if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it? ⁶ Whereupon were the foundations thereof sunken? or who laid its corner-stone, ⁷ When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? ⁸ And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb? ⁹ When I made the cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it; ¹⁰ When I cut out for it my boundary, and set bars and doors, ¹¹ And said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed? ¹² Hast thou since thy days commanded the morning? hast thou caused the dawn to know its place, ¹³ That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked might be shaken out of it? ¹⁴ It is changed like the signet-clay; and [all things] stand forth as in a garment: ¹⁵ And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the uplifted arm is broken. ¹⁶ Hast thou entered as far as the springs of the sea? and hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep? ¹⁷ Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? and hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death? ¹⁸ Hath thine understanding compassed the breadths of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all. ¹⁹ Where is the way to where light dwelleth? and the darkness, where is its place, ²⁰ That thou shouldest take it to its bound, and that thou shouldest know the paths to its house? ²¹ Thou knowest, for thou wast then born, and the number of thy days is great! ²² Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, and hast thou seen the treasuries of the hail, ²³ Which I have reserved for the time of distress, for the day of battle and war? ²⁴ By what way is the light parted, [and] the east wind scattered upon the earth? ²⁵ Who hath divided a channel for the rain-flood, and a way for the thunder`s flash; ²⁶ To cause it to rain on the earth, where no one is; on the wilderness wherein there is not a man; ²⁷ To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground], and to cause the sprout of the grass to spring forth? ²⁸ Hath the rain a father? or who begetteth the drops of dew? ²⁹ Out of whose womb cometh the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who bringeth it forth? ³⁰ When the waters lie hidden as in stone, and the face of the deep holdeth fast together.

⁴ Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field, they go forth, and return not unto them. ⁵ Who hath sent out the wild ass free? and who hath loosed the bands of the onager, ⁶ Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings? ⁷ He laugheth at the tumult of the city, and heareth not the shouts of the driver; ⁸ The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing. ⁹ Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy crib? ¹⁰ Canst thou bind the buffalo with his cord in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? ¹¹ Wilt thou put confidence in him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou leave thy labour to him? ¹² Wilt thou trust him to bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy threshing-floor? ¹³ The wing of the ostrich beats joyously -- But is it the stork`s pinion and plumage? ¹⁴ For she leaveth her eggs to the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, ¹⁵ And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may trample them. ¹⁶ She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labour is in vain, without her concern. ¹⁷ For +God hath deprived her of wisdom, and hath not furnished her with understanding. ¹⁸ What time she lasheth herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider. ¹⁹ Hast thou given strength to the horse? hast thou clothed his neck with the quivering mane? ²⁰ Dost thou make him to leap as a locust? His majestic snorting is terrible. ²¹ He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in [his] strength; he goeth forth to meet the armed host. ²² He laugheth at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from before the sword. ²³ The quiver rattleth upon him, the glittering spear and the javelin. ²⁴ He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage, and cannot contain himself at the sound of the trumpet: ²⁵ At the noise of the trumpets he saith, Aha! and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting. ²⁶ Doth the hawk fly by thine intelligence, [and] stretch his wings toward the south? ²⁷ Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make his nest on high? ²⁸ He inhabiteth the rock and maketh his dwelling on the point of the cliff, and the fastness: ²⁹ From thence he spieth out the prey, his eyes look into the distance; ³⁰ And his young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there is he.

⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions; according to thy loving-kindness remember thou me, for thy goodness` sake, Jehovah.

⁵ Behold, thou hast made my days [as] hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, [even] the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.

⁵ Thou, O Jehovah my God, hast multiplied thy marvellous works, and thy thoughts toward us: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee; would I declare and speak [them], they are more than can be numbered.

¹ {To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} Blessed is he that understandeth the poor: Jehovah will deliver him in the day of evil. ² Jehovah will preserve him, and keep him alive; he shall be made happy in the land; and thou wilt not deliver him to the will of his enemies.

⁴ He will call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people: ⁵ Gather unto me my godly ones, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice! ⁶ And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God executeth judgment himself. Selah.

¹³ For thou hast delivered my soul from death; [wilt thou] not [keep] my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

⁹ Thou hast visited the earth, thou hast watered it; thou greatly enrichest it: the river of God is full of water; thou providest their corn, when thou hast so prepared it: ¹⁰ Thou dost satiate its furrows, thou smoothest its clods, thou makest it soft with showers; thou blessest the springing thereof. ¹¹ Thou crownest the year with thy goodness, and thy paths drop fatness: ¹² They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness, and the hills are girded with gladness. ¹³ The meadows are clothed with flocks, and the valleys are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, yea, they sing.

¹² So I gave them up unto their own hearts` stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels.

¹¹ For Jehovah Elohim is a sun and shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

⁷ For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we troubled. ⁸ Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance. ⁹ For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a [passing] thought. ¹⁰ The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. ¹¹ Who knoweth the power of thine anger? and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?

⁵ Jehovah, how great are thy works! Thy thoughts are very deep:

²⁴ How manifold are thy works, O Jehovah! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

⁹ He scattereth abroad, he giveth to the needy; his righteousness abideth for ever: his horn shall be exalted with honour.

⁵ They that sow in tears shall reap with rejoicing: ⁶ He goeth forth and weepeth, bearing seed for scattering; he cometh again with rejoicing, bearing his sheaves.

¹³ For thou hast possessed my reins; thou didst cover me in my mother`s womb. ¹⁴ I will praise thee, for I am fearfully, wonderfully made. Marvellous are thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well. ¹⁵ My bones were not hidden from thee when I was made in secret, curiously wrought in the lower parts of the earth. ¹⁶ Thine eyes did see my unformed substance, and in thy book all [my members] were written; [during many] days were they fashioned, when [as yet] there was none of them.

²⁷ Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thy hand to do it.

¹⁶ These six [things] doth Jehovah hate, yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

¹⁸ The wicked worketh a deceitful work; but he that soweth righteousness hath a sure reward.

²⁴ There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is right, but [it tendeth] only to want. ²⁵ The liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.

³⁰ That which enlighteneth the eyes rejoiceth the heart; good tidings make the bones fat.

¹⁷ He that is gracious to the poor lendeth unto Jehovah; and what he hath bestowed will he repay unto him.

⁴ The sluggard will not plough by reason of the winter; he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

⁹ He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

¹³ The sluggard saith, There is a lion without, I shall be killed in the streets!

¹⁵ Folly is bound in the heart of a child; the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

¹³ The indigent and the oppressor meet together; Jehovah lighteneth the eyes of them both.

² Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities! all is vanity.

¹⁴ I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

¹ I said in my heart, Come now, I will try thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure. But behold, this also is vanity. ² I said of laughter, Madness! and of mirth, What availeth it? ³ I searched in my heart how to cherish my flesh with wine, while practising my heart with wisdom; and how to lay hold on folly, till I should see what was that good for the children of men which they should do under the heavens all the days of their life. ⁴ I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards; ⁵ I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of every kind of fruit; ⁶ I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood, where the trees are reared. ⁷ I acquired servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that had been in Jerusalem before me. ⁸ I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces; I got me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the children of men, a wife and concubines. ⁹ And I became great, and increased more than all that had been before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me. ¹⁰ And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them: I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour, and this was my portion from all my labour.

¹⁰ And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them: I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour, and this was my portion from all my labour. ¹¹ Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that it had cost me to do [them]; and behold, all was vanity and pursuit of the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

¹⁵ And I said in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool so will it happen even to me; and why was I then so wise? Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

¹⁷ And I hated life; for the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

¹⁹ And who knoweth whether he will be a wise [man] or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour at which I have laboured, and wherein I have been wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

²¹ For there is a man whose labour hath been with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skill, and who leaveth it to a man that hath not laboured therein, to be his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil. ²² For what will man have of all his labour and of the striving of his heart, wherewith he hath wearied himself under the sun? ²³ For all his days are sorrows, and his travail vexation: even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.

²⁶ For he giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good in God`s sight. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

¹² I know that there is nothing good for them but to rejoice and to do well in their life; ¹³ yea also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labour, it is the gift of God.

¹⁷ I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

⁸ There is one [alone] and without a second; also he hath neither son nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour, neither is his eye satisfied with riches, and [he saith not], For whom then am I labouring, and depriving my soul of good? This also is vanity and a grievous occupation.

¹⁶ [There is] no end of all the people, of all that stood before them; those however that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after the wind.

¹⁵ As he came forth from his mother`s womb, naked shall he go away again as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand. ¹⁶ And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came so doth he go away, and what profit hath he, in having laboured for the wind?

¹⁸ Behold what I have seen good and comely: [it is] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labour wherewith [man] laboureth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for that is his portion. ¹⁹ Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and power to eat thereof, and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labour: that is a gift of God. ²⁰ For he will not much remember the days of his life, because God answereth [him] with the joy of his heart.

⁵ moreover it hath not seen nor known the sun: this hath rest rather than the other. ⁶ Yea, though he live twice a thousand years, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

¹¹ For there are many things that increase vanity: what is man advantaged?

¹¹ Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, and profitable to them that see the sun.

¹⁴ In the day of prosperity enjoy good, and in the day of adversity consider: God hath also set the one beside the other, to the end that man should find out nothing [of what shall be] after him.

²⁴ Whatever hath been, is far off, and exceeding deep: who will find it out?

¹² Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and prolong his [days], yet I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, because they fear before him;

¹⁵ And I commended mirth, because there is nothing better for man under the sun than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry; for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God hath given him under the sun.

¹⁷ then I saw that all [is] the work of God, [and] that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however man may labour to seek [it] out, yet doth he not find [it]; and even, if a wise [man] think to know [it], he shall not be able to find [it] out.

¹ For all this I laid to my heart and [indeed] to investigate all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; man knoweth neither love nor hatred: all is before them.

¹⁰ Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.

⁶ In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand; for thou knowest not which shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

¹ And remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, of which thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

¹ And remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, of which thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; ² before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, be darkened, and the clouds return after the rain; ³ in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows are darkened, ⁴ and the doors are shut toward the street; when the sound of the grinding is subdued, and they rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low; ⁵ they are also afraid of what is high, and terrors are in the way, and the almond is despised, and the grasshopper is a burden, and the caper-berry is without effect; (for man goeth to his age-long home, and the mourners go about the streets;)

¹⁴ For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil.

⁸ But the noble deviseth noble things; and to noble things doth he stand.

²⁰ Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth the feet of the ox and the ass.

²⁸ Dost thou not know, hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not nor tireth? There is no searching of his understanding.

¹⁰ For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

¹⁰ For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: ¹¹ so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall do that which I please, and it shall accomplish that for which I send it.

²⁴ But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.

¹⁶ Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the mountains of twilight; and ye shall look for light, but he will turn it into the shadow of death, and make [it] gross darkness.

¹⁷ They say constantly unto them that despise me, Jehovah hath said, Ye shall have peace. And they say unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his heart, No evil shall come upon you.

¹⁶ [As for] the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah, we will not hearken unto thee, ¹⁷ but we will certainly do every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the heavens, and to pour out drink-offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and we had plenty of bread, and were well, and saw no evil.

²⁷ It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth:

²⁷ Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.

¹² Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek Jehovah, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

² a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and gross darkness, as the dawn spread upon the mountains; -- a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after them, to the years of generations and generations.

⁵ And this [man] shall be Peace. When the Assyrian shall come into our land, and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight princes of men.

⁶ Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but are not satisfied; ye drink, but are not filled with drink; ye clothe yourselves, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages for a bag with holes. ⁷ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways. ⁸ Go up to the mountain and bring wood, and build the house, and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith Jehovah. ⁹ Ye looked for much, and behold it was little; and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. Wherefore? saith Jehovah of hosts. Because of my house that lieth waste, whilst ye run every man to his own house. ¹⁰ Therefore over you the heavens withhold their dew, and the earth withholdeth its fruit. ¹¹ And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon man, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.

¹⁷ I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; and ye [turned] not to me, saith Jehovah. ¹⁸ Consider, I pray you, from this day and onward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth [month], from the day that the foundation of Jehovah`s temple was laid, consider [it]. ¹⁹ Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree have not brought forth: from this day will I bless [you].

¹¹ But now I will not be unto the remnant of this people as in the former days, saith Jehovah of hosts; ¹² for the seed shall be prosperous, the vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these [things].

¹⁰ And already the axe is applied to the root of the trees; every tree therefore not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

²⁸ But *I* say unto you, that every one who looks upon a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

⁴² To him that asks of thee give, and from him that desires to borrow of thee turn not away.

⁴⁵ that ye may be [the] sons of your Father who is in [the] heavens; for he makes his sun rise on evil and good, and sends rain on just and unjust.

¹³ And if the house indeed be worthy, let your peace come upon it; but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.

⁴² And whosoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold [water] only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

²² Jesus says to him, I say not to thee until seven times, but until seventy times seven.

¹³ Then said the king to the servants, Bind him feet and hands, and take him away, and cast him out into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

⁴⁰ And the King answering shall say to them, Verily, I say to you, Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me.

²⁶ And he said, Thus is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast the seed upon the earth, ²⁷ and should sleep and rise up night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he does not know how. ²⁸ The earth bears fruit of itself, first [the] blade, then an ear, then full corn in the ear. ²⁹ But when the fruit is produced, immediately he sends the sickle, for the harvest is come.

³⁰ To every one that asks of thee, give; and from him that takes away what is thine, ask it not back. ³¹ And as ye wish that men should do to you, do *ye* also to them in like manner. ³² And if ye love those that love you, what thank is it to you? for even sinners love those that love them. ³³ And if ye do good to those that do good to you, what thank is it to you? for even sinners do the same. ³⁴ And if ye lend to those from whom ye hope to receive, what thank is it to you? [for] even sinners lend to sinners that they may receive the like. ³⁵ But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return, and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of [the] Highest; for *he* is good to the unthankful and wicked.

⁷ And he said to the vinedresser, Behold, [these] three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree and find none: cut it down; why does it also render the ground useless?

¹⁴ and thou shalt be blessed; for they have not [the means] to recompense thee; for it shall be recompensed thee in the resurrection of the just.

¹² and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give to me the share of the property that falls [to me]. And he divided to them what he was possessed of. ¹³ And after not many days the younger son gathering all together went away into a country a long way off, and there dissipated his property, living in debauchery.

²² And it came to pass that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And the rich man also died and was buried. ²³ And in hades lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. ²⁴ And he crying out said, Father Abraham, have compassion on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering in this flame. ²⁵ But Abraham said, Child, recollect that *thou* hast fully received thy good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted here, and *thou* art in suffering. ²⁶ And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that those who desire to pass hence to you cannot, nor do they who [desire to cross] from there pass over unto us.

⁴ And if he should sin against thee seven times in the day, and seven times should return to thee, saying, I repent, thou shalt forgive him.

⁸ The wind blows where it will, and thou hearest its voice, but knowest not whence it comes and where it goes: thus is every one that is born of the Spirit.

³⁶ He that reaps receives wages and gathers fruit unto life eternal, that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together. ³⁷ For in this is [verified] the true saying, It is one who sows and another who reaps. ³⁸ I have sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others have laboured, and ye have entered into their labours.

³⁵ Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little while is the light amongst you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you. And he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.

²⁰ But there were certain of them, Cyprians and Cyrenians, who entering into Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, announcing the glad tidings of the Lord Jesus. ²¹ And [the] Lord`s hand was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

²⁸ and one from among them, by name Agabus, rose up and signified by the Spirit that there was going to be a great famine over all the inhabited earth, which also came to pass under Claudius. ²⁹ And they determined, according as any one of the disciples was well off, each of them to send to the brethren who dwelt in Judaea, to minister [to them]; ³⁰ which also they did, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

¹⁶ who in the past generations suffered all the nations to go in their own ways,

³⁰ God therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now enjoins men that they shall all everywhere repent, ³¹ because he has set a day in which he is going to judge the habitable earth in righteousness by [the] man whom he has appointed, giving the proof [of it] to all [in] having raised him from among [the] dead.

²⁵ And as he reasoned concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix, being filled with fear, answered, Go for the present, and when I get an opportunity I will send for thee;

⁵ but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath, in [the] day of wrath and revelation of [the] righteous judgment of God, ⁶ who shall render to each according to his works: ⁷ to them who, in patient continuance of good works, seek for glory and honour and incorruptibility, life eternal. ⁸ But to those that are contentious, and are disobedient to the truth, but obey unrighteousness, [there shall be] wrath and indignation, ⁹ tribulation and distress, on every soul of man that works evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek; ¹⁰ but glory and honour and peace to every one that works good, both to Jew first and to Greek: ¹¹ for there is no acceptance of persons with God.

³³ O depth of riches both of [the] wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable his judgments, and untraceable his ways!

¹⁰ But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou make little of thy brother? for we shall all be placed before the judgment-seat of God.

⁵ Who then is Apollos, and who Paul? Ministering servants, through whom ye have believed, and as the Lord has given to each. ⁶ *I* have planted; Apollos watered; but God has given the increase. ⁷ So that neither the planter is anything, nor the waterer; but God the giver of the increase.

⁵ So that do not judge anything before [the] time, until the Lord shall come, who shall also both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and shall make manifest the counsels of hearts; and then shall each have [his] praise from God.

¹⁰ For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of the Christ, that each may receive the things [done] in the body, according to those he has done, whether [it be] good or evil.

¹ Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in God`s fear.

⁶ But this [is true], he that sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that sows in [the spirit of] blessing shall reap also in blessing:

¹⁰ Now he that supplies seed to the sower and bread for eating shall supply and make abundant your sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness: ¹¹ enriched in every way unto all free-hearted liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.

¹ Brethren, if even a man be taken in some fault, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself lest *thou* also be tempted.

⁸ For he that sows to his own flesh, shall reap corruption from the flesh; but he that sows to the Spirit, from the Spirit shall reap eternal life: ⁹ but let us not lose heart in doing good; for in due time, if we do not faint, we shall reap. ¹⁰ So then, as we have occasion, let us do good towards all, and specially towards those of the household of faith.

² in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience: ³ among whom *we* also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest:

¹⁶ redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

¹⁸ to do good, to be rich in good works, to be liberal in distributing, disposed to communicate [of their substance], ¹⁹ laying by for themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold of [what is] really life.

²² But youthful lusts flee, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those that call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.

² proclaim the word; be urgent in season [and] out of season, convict, rebuke, encourage, with all longsuffering and doctrine.

¹⁰ For God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye have shewn to his name, having ministered to the saints, and [still] ministering.

²⁷ And forasmuch as it is the portion of men once to die, and after this judgment;

³ Remember prisoners, as bound with [them]; those that are evil-treated, as being yourselves also in [the] body.

³ For the time past [is] sufficient [for us] to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-drinking, revels, drinkings, and unhallowed idolatries. ⁴ Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] to the same sink of corruption, speaking injuriously [of you];

⁷ But the present heavens and the earth by his word are laid up in store, kept for fire unto a day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

¹¹ All these things then being to be dissolved, what ought ye to be in holy conversation and godliness, ¹² waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, by reason of which [the] heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and [the] elements, burning with heat, shall melt? ¹³ But, according to his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness. ¹⁴ Wherefore, beloved, as ye wait for these things, be diligent to be found of him in peace, without spot and blameless;

¹⁵ Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one love the world, the love of the Father is not in him; ¹⁶ because all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

¹⁷ But whoso may have the world`s substance, and see his brother having need, and shut up his bowels from him, how abides the love of God in him?

¹⁸ that they said to you, that at [the] end of the time there should be mockers, walking after their own lusts of ungodlinesses.

¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is [that] of life. And the dead were judged out of the things written in the books according to their works. ¹³ And the sea gave up the dead which [were] in it, and death and hades gave up the dead which [were] in them; and they were judged each according to their works: ¹⁴ and death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, [even] the lake of fire. ¹⁵ And if any one was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.