Job 23 Cross References - JuliaSmith

¹ And Job will answer and say, ² Also to-day is my complaint bitter: my hand heavy over my groaning, ³ Who will give, I knew to find him: I will come even to his place. ⁴ I will arrange judgment before him, and I will fill the mouth with proofs. ⁵ I shall know the words he will answer me, and I shall understand what he will say to me. ⁶ Will he contend with me in great power? No; but he will put in me. ⁷ There the upright one disputed with him; and I shall be delivered forever from my judge. ⁸ Behold, I shall go before, and he is not; and behind, I shall not understand for him. ⁹ The left hand in his working, and I shall not behold: he will cover himself on the right hand, and I shall not see. ¹⁰ For he knew the way with me,: he tried me.; I shall come forth as gold. ¹¹ My foot laid hold upon his going, I watched his way and not softly. ¹² From the command of his lips and I will not waver; from his law I hid the words of his mouth. ¹³ And he is in one, and who shall turn him back? and his soul desired, and he will do. ¹⁴ For he will finish my appointing: and many such with him. ¹⁵ For this I shall tremble from his face: I shall consider, and I shall be afraid of him. ¹⁶ God relaxed my heart, and the Almighty caused me to tremble. ¹⁷ For I was not cut off from the face of darkness, and he covered misfortune from my face.

¹⁹ For I know him, for that he will command his sons and his house after him; and they watched the way of Jehovah to do justice and judgment, for Jehovah to bring upon Abraham what he spake to him.

²⁵ Far be it with respect to thee doing as this word to kill the just with the wicked; and for the just to be as the wicked, far be it with respect to thee: shall not the judge of all the earth do judgment? ²⁶ And Jehovah will say, If I shall find in Sodom fifty just, in the midst of the city, I forgive all the place for their sakes. ²⁷ And Abraham will answer and say, Behold now, I have undertaken to speak to my Lord, and I dust and ashes. ²⁸ If the fifty just shall lack five: wilt thou destroy for sake of five all the city? And he will say, I will not destroy, if I shall find there forty and five. ²⁹ And he added yet to speak to him, and he will say, If forty shall be found there? And he will say, I will not do for sake of forty. ³⁰ And he will say, Now will it not kindle to the Lord, and I will speak: If thirty shall be found there? And he will say, I will not do, if I shall find thirty there. ³¹ And he will say, Behold now, I have begun to speak to the Lord If twenty shall be found there? And he will say, I will not destroy for sake of twenty. ³² And he will say, Now will it not be angry to the Lord, and I will speak only this once: If ten shall be found there? And he will say, I will not destroy for sake of ten.

¹² And thou saidst, Doing well I will do well with thee, and I set thy seed as the sand of the sea, which shall not be counted for multitude.

¹² Lest the Egyptians shall speak, saying, With evil he brought them forth to kill them in the mountains, and to finish them from the face of the earth. Turn back from the heat of thy wrath, and repent concerning evil towards thy people ¹³ Remember Abraham, Isaak, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou didst swear to them by thyself, and thou wilt speak to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and all this land which I said, I will give to your seed and they inherited forever.

¹³ And Moses will say to Jehovah, And the Egyptians heard, for thou didst bring up with thy strength this people from the midst of them; ¹⁴ And they will say to those dwelling upon this land; they heard that thou Jehovah art in the midst of this people who wert seen eye to eye; thou Jehovah and thy cloud stood over them, and in a pillar of cloud thou goest before them by day, and in a pillar of fire by night. ¹⁵ And didst thou kill this people as one man, and the nations spake who heard thy fame, saying, ¹⁶ Because Jehovah will not be able to bring in this people to the land which he sware to them, he will slay them in the desert ¹⁷ And now shall the strength of the Lord be great, as thou spakest, saying, ¹⁸ Jehovah, slow to anger and of great kindness, lifting up iniquity and transgression and cleansing, will not cleanse; striking the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third, and upon the fourth. ¹⁹ Forgive now the sin of this people according to thy great kindness, and as thou didst lift up to this people, and even till now.

¹⁹ God is not man, and will he lie? and the son of man, and will he grieve? Did he say, and will he not do? and speak, and will he not establish? ²⁰ Behold, I was taken to praise: and he praised and I shall not turn it back.

² And remember thou all the way which Jehovah thy God caused thee to go this forty years in the desert in order to humble thee, to try thee, to know what is in thy heart, whether thou shalt watch his commands or not

³ And he said to them, Hear, O Israel; ye come near this day to war against your enemies: your heart shall not be cast down, ye shall not fear, and ye shall not take flight, and ye shall not be terrified from their face.

⁸ With leave, O Lord, what to say, after that Israel turned back the neck before his enemies. ⁹ And the Canaanite and all inhabiting the land shall hear, and they encompassed about us, and they cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do to thy great name?

²⁰ And she will say to them, Ye shall not call to me Naomi; call to me, Mara: for the Almighty made bitter to me greatly.

² And now, behold, the king going before you: and I grew old and I was gray-headed; and my sons, behold them with you: and I went before you from my youth even to this day. ³ Behold me: answer against me before Jehovah and before his Messiah, whose ox did I take? or whose ass did I take? and whom did I oppress? whom did I vex? and from whose hand did I take a ransom and hidden mine eyes with it? and I will turn back to you. ⁴ And they will say, Thou didst not oppress us, and thou didst not vex us, and thou didst not take any thing from man's hand. ⁵ And he will say to them, Jehovah the witness against you, and his Messiah the witness this day that ye found nothing in my hand. And he will say, A witness.

³ O Jehovah, remember now how I went before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and I did the good in thine eyes. And Hezekiah will weep a great weeping.

²⁰ For this, behold me gathering thee to thy fathers, and thou wert gathered to thy tomb in peace; and thine eyes shall not look upon all the evil which I bring upon this place. And they will turn back the king word.

¹¹ But send forth now thy band and tough upon all which is to him, if he will not bless thee upon thy face. ¹² And Jehovah will say to the adversary, Behold, all that is to him in thy hand: only upon him thou shalt not send. forth thy hand. And the adversary will go forth from the face of Jehovah.

⁵ But send forth now thy hand and touch upon his bone and upon his flesh, if he will not bless thee to thy face. ⁶ And Jehovah will say to the adversary, Behold him in thy hand, but watch his soul

² I would weighing, my anger shall be weighed, and my falls shall be lifted up in the balances together. ³ For now it will be heavy above the sand of the seas: for this my words were rash.

⁹ And God will, and he will crush me; will he let his hand remain, and will he cut me off? ¹⁰ And it will yet be my consolation, and I shall exult in pain: he will not spare; for I hid not the words of of the Holy One.

³ So was I caused to possess to me months of vanity, and nights of toil were allotted to me.

¹¹ Also I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the straitness of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

⁴ Wise of heart and strong of power: who was hard before him and shall be requited?

¹¹ Behold, he will pass by me, and I shall not see: and he will glide on and I shall not understand for him. ¹² Behold, he will catch and who shall turn him? and who shall say to him, What wilt thou do? ¹³ God will not turn back his anger, the helpers of pride bowed down under him.

¹⁵ Whom, if I was just, I shall not answer; I will make supplication to my judge.

¹⁹ If for strength, behold him strong: if for judgment, who shall arraign me

³³ There is not between us a reprover; he will put his hand upon us two. ³⁴ He will take away his rod from me, and his truth shall not make me afraid.

¹ My soul was weary in my life; I shall leave upon me my complaint; I shall speak in the bitterness of my soul ² Saying to God, Thou wilt not condemn me; make known to me for what thou wilt contend with me.

¹⁵ If I did evil, wo to me; and was I just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with dishonor: and see thou mine affliction;

⁶ And he shall announce to thee hidden things of wisdom, for they are the double for understanding. And know thou that God will set to thee from thine iniquity.

¹⁰ If he shall pass on, and shut up, and gather together, who shall turn him back.

¹⁴ Behold, he will pull down and it shall not be built up: he will shut up against man and it shall not be opened.

³ But I will speak to the Almighty; I shall delight to plead before God.

¹⁸ Behold now I set in order judgment; I knew that I shall be justified.

²¹ Remove thy hand far from me, and thy terror shall not make me afraid. ²² And call and I will answer, and I shall speak, and turn thou to me. ²³ How many iniquities and sins to me? make known to me my transgression and my sin.

²² He will not believe to turn back from darkness, and he was waited for by the sword.

²¹ Shall he judge for a man with God? and the son of man for his neighbor?

⁹ And the just shall hold on his way, and the clean one of hands shall add strength.

⁶ The light was darkened in his tent, and his lamp shall be extinguished for him.

¹⁸ They shall drive him out of light into darkness, and they shall exclude him from the habitable globe.

⁸ He walled up my path and I shall not pass, and he will set darkness upon my beaten paths.

¹¹ Or darkness thou wilt not see; and abundance of waters shall cover thee.

²² Take now the law from his mouth, and set his words in thy heart

³ Who will give, I knew to find him: I will come even to his place.

² God lives, he removed my judgment; and the Almighty embittered my soul;

²³ For the destruction of God is a terror to me, and from his lifting up I shall not prevail.

³⁵ Who will give to me hearing to me.? Behold, my sign, the Almighty will answer me, and the man contending with me wrote a book. ³⁶ If not, I shall lift it up upon my shoulder, I will bind it a crown to me ³⁷ The number of my steps I shall announce to him: as a leader I shall draw near to him.

²⁹ And he will give quiet, and who shall disturb? and he will hide the face, and who shall look upon him? and against a nation and against man wholly:

¹⁴ Also if thou shalt say thou wilt not see him, judgment is before him, and thou shalt wait for him.

¹⁹ Make known to us what we shall say to him we shall not set in order from the face of darkness.

¹ And Jehovah will answer Job, and he will say, ² Shall he contending with the Almighty, instruct? he reproving God shall answer it ³ And Job will answer Jehovah, and say, ⁴ Behold, I was vile; what shall I turn back to thee? I put my hand to my mouth. ⁵ Once I sake, and I will not answer: and twice, and I will not add.

² I knew that thou wilt be able to do all, and counsel shall not be restrained from thee. ³ Who this hiding counsel without knowledge? for this, I announced, and I shall not understand; wonders above me, and I shall not know. ⁴ Hear, now, and I will speak: I will ask thee and make thou known to me. ⁵ By the hearing of the ear I heard of thee: and now mine eyes saw thee:

⁵ By the hearing of the ear I heard of thee: and now mine eyes saw thee: ⁶ For this, I shall melt away, and I lamented in dust and ashes.

⁶ For this, I shall melt away, and I lamented in dust and ashes. ⁷ And it will be after Jehovah spake these words to Job, and Jehovah will say to Eliphaz the Temanite, Mine anger was kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye spake not the right before me as my servant Job. ⁸ And now take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and bring up a burnt-offering for yourselves; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for his face I will accept, so as not to do with you for folly, for ye spake not to me the right as my servant Job.

⁶ For Jehovah shall know the way of the just: but the way of the unjust shall perish.

¹ Wherefore, O Jehovah, wilt thou stand afar off? wilt thou hide for times in straits?

¹ To the overseer; chanting of David. ² How long, O Jehovah, wilt thou wholly forget me? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? ³ How long shall I put counsels in my soul, grief in my heart the day? how long shall mine enemy rise up against me?

³ Thou didst try my heart; thou didst review the night; thou didst refine me, thou wilt find nothing: I purposed, my mouth shall not pass by.

⁵ Hold up my being straight in thy ways, my steps be not moved

²⁰ Jehovah will recompense me according to my justice, according to the cleanness of my hands he will turn back to me. ²¹ For I watched the ways of Jehovah, and I acted not wickedly from my God. ²² For all his judgments are before me, and his laws I shall not put away from me. ²³ And I blameless with him, and I will watch myself from mine iniquity. ²⁴ And Jehovah will turn back to me according to my justice, and according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes.

⁹ The fear of Jehovah being pure, standing forever: the judgments of Jehovah, truth, they were altogether just ¹⁰ Being desirable above gold, and above much pure gold, and being sweet above honey, and the dropping of honey-combs.

¹⁴ I was poured out as water, and all my bones were sundered; my heart was as wax being melted in the midst of my bowels.

¹¹ For sake of thy name, O Jehovah, and thou forgavest to mine iniquity; for it was much.

⁴ For day and night thy hand will be heavy upon me: my moisture was turned into the dryness of summer. Silence.

³ The words of his mouth vanity and deceit: he ceased to be circumspect, to do good.

¹ Judge me, O God, and contend my contention from a nation not godly: from the man of deceit and iniquity thou wilt deliver me.

¹⁸ Our heart drew not back, and thou wilt not incline our going from thy path;

¹⁰ For thou didst try us, O God, thou didst prove us as purifying of silver.

² In the day of my straits I sought Jehovah: my hand was stretched out at night, and it will not be slack: my soul refused to be comforted. ³ I will remember God and I shall be disquieted: I shall be depressed and my spirit will languish. Silence.

³ I will remember God and I shall be disquieted: I shall be depressed and my spirit will languish. Silence. ⁴ Thou didst hold mine eyes watching: I was moved, and I will not speak. ⁵ I reckoned the days of old, the everlasting years. ⁶ I will remember my stringed instruments in the night: I shall meditate with my heart, and my spirit will search out. ⁷ Will Jehovah reject forever? and will he no more add to be satisfied? ⁸ Did his mercy fail forever? his word come to an end to generation and generation? ⁹ Did God forget to compassionate? or in anger did he gather his compassion? Silence.

¹⁹ In the sea thy way, and thy paths in many waters, and thy heels were not known.

¹⁶ Upon me thy burnings passed over; thy terrors made me silent

⁴⁶ How long, O Jehovah, wilt thou hide thyself forever? Shall thy wrath burn as fire?

² A cloud and darkness round about him: justice and judgment the preparing of his throne.

³ And our God is in the heavens; did all that he delighted in.

¹¹ In my heart I hid thy sayings, so that I shall not sin to thee.

¹⁰³ How smooth were thy words to my palate I more than honey to my mouth!

¹²⁰ My flesh stood erect from thy fear, and I was afraid of thy judgments.

¹²⁷ For this I loved thy commands above gold, and above fine gold.

⁵ And those turning to their winding ways, Jehovah will cause them to go with those working iniquity: peace upon Israel.

⁶ All which Jehovah delighted in he did, in the heavens and in the earth, in the seas and all the depths.

³ In the day I called, and thou wilt answer me; thou wilt enlarge me with strength in my soul.

¹ To the overseer, to David a chanting. O Jehovah thou didst search me, and thou wilt know. ² Thou knewest my sitting and my rising; thou didst understand for my thoughts from far of ³ Thou didst sift my way and my lying down, and thou knewest all my ways.

³ The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold: and Jehovah tries hearts.

²¹ Many purposes in a man's heart: and the counsel of Jehovah, that shall stand.

¹⁵ The crooked thing shall not be able to be made straight: and the deficiency shall not be able to be numberd

¹⁴ I knew that all which God will do it shall be forever: to it not to be added, and from it not to be taken away: and God doing they shall be afraid from his face.

¹⁸ Come now we will confute together Jehovah will say: if your sins shall be as deep scarlet, they shall be white as snow; if they shall be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.

⁵ And saying, Wo to me! for I was cut off; because I a man of unclean lips, and in the midst of a people of unclean lips I dwell: for mine eyes saw the king, Jehovah of armies.

¹⁷ And I waited for Jehovah in his hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I trusted to him.

²⁴ Jehovah of armies sware, saying, If not as I purposed thus it was, and as I counseled, this shall stand: ²⁵ To break Assur in my land, and upon my mountain I will tread him down: and his yoke was removed from off them, and his burden shall remove from off their shoulder. ²⁶ This the counsel being counseled upon all the land: and this the hand stretched out upon all the nations. ²⁷ For Jehovah of armies counseled and who shall bring to nought? and his hand was stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

⁸ Also the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, we hoped for thee; to thy name and to thy remembrance is the desire of the soul.

⁴ Wrath not to me: who shall distribute to me the sharp point of the thorn in battle? I will rush upon her; I will set her on fire together.

⁸ In measure, in sending her forth thou wilt contend with her: he took away with a hard spirit in the day of the east,

²⁷ For what wilt thou say, O Jacob, and wilt thou speak, O Israel, My way was hid from Jehovah, and my judgment will pass over from my God. ²⁸ Didst thou not know? heardest thou not the eternal God, Jehovah, creating the extremities of the earth, will not faint, and will not be weary? no searching to his understanding.

²⁶ Cause me to remember; we will judge together; relate thou so that thou shalt be justified.

¹⁵ Surely thou art God hiding thyself, the God of Israel, the Saviour.

¹⁰ Announcing the last part from the beginning, and from of old what was not done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my delight:

⁶ Seek ye Jehovah in his being found, and call him in his being near. ⁷ The unjust one shall forsake his way, and the man of vanity his purposes, and turn back to Jehovah, and he will pity him, and to our God, for he will multiply to forgive.

¹ The just one perished and none put upon the heart: men of kindness being taken away, for none understanding that the just one was taken away from the face of evil

¹⁶ For not forever will I contend, and not to everlasting will I be angry: for the spirit will faint from before me, and the lives I made.

⁵ Will he guard forever? if he will watch to the end? Behold, I spake, and wilt thou do evil, and shalt thou be able?

¹ Just art thou, O Jehovah, for I will strive to thee: surely I will speak judgments with thee: Wherefore did the way of the evil prosper? all they acting faithlessly with treachery were secure?

⁷ If our iniquities answered against us, O Jehovah, do for sake of thy name: for our turnings back were many; we sinned against thee.

¹⁶ Thy words were found, and eating them; and thy word will be to me for the gladness and for the joy of my heart: for thy name was called upon me, Jehovah the God of armies.

⁴⁶ And lest your heart shall be faint and ye be afraid for the report being heard in the land; and a report came in a year, and after it in a year a report, and violence in the land, dominion against dominion.

¹⁹ Remembering my affliction and my bitterness, the wormwood and the poison. ²⁰ Remembering, my soul will remember, and will be bowed down upon me.

³³ I live, says the Lord Jehovah, if not with a strong hand and with an arm stretched out, and with wrath poured out, will I reign over you.

³⁵ And I brought you into the desert of the peoples, and I judged you there face to face.

³⁵ And all the generations of the earth being reckoned as nothing: and doing according to his station in the army of the heavens, and the generations of the earth: and there is none that shall strike upon his hand, and say to him, What didst thou?

¹⁸ Incline, O my God, thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which thy name was called upon it: for not for our justice do we cause our supplications to fall before thee, but for thy many compassions. ¹⁹ O Jehovah hear; O Jehovah forgive; O Jehovah, attend and do; thou wilt not delay for thy sake, O my God: for thy name was called upon thy city and upon thy people.

¹⁵ Alas! for the day: for the day of Jehovah is near, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

⁹ The voice of Jehovah will call to the city, and wisdom feared thy name: hear ye the rod, and who appointed it

¹⁶ I heard and my belly will tremble; at the voice my lips quivered: rottenness will come into my bones, and I shall tremble under me that I shall rest at the day of straits: to come up to the people he will invade him.

⁶ And those departing from after Jehovah, and who sought not Jehovah, and asked not for him.

⁹ And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.

² And who enduring the day of his coming? and who standing in his being seen? for he is as the fire of the crucible, as the alkali of the fuller. ³ And he sat melting and cleansing silver: and he cleansed the sons of Levi, and he purified them as gold and as silver, and they were to Jehovah bringing near the sacrifice in justice.

¹³ And they upon the rock, who, when they hear, with joy receive the word; and they have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of trial fly away. ¹⁴ And that having fallen into thorns, and they are they having heard, and with cares and riches, and pleasures of life going forth, are choked, and bring not to maturity. ¹⁵ And that in the good earth, they are they which, in a fair and good heart, having heard, keep the word, and bring forth fruit with patience.

⁴² And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, which the Lord will set over his household, to give the allowance of wheat in due time?

⁴⁶ The lord of that servant shall come in a day which he expects not, and in an hour which he knows not, and he will cut him in two equal parts, and set his portion with the unbelieving.

³² And he said to them, I have food to eat which ye know not.

³⁴ Jesus says to them, My food is that I might do the will of him having sent me, and finish his work.

⁶⁶ From this many of his disciples went away back, and walked no more with him. ⁶⁷ Then said Jesus to the twelve, And ye will not go away? ⁶⁸ Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go away? thou hast the words of eternal life. ⁶⁹ And we have believed, and known, that thou art Christ, Son of the living God.

³¹ Then said Jesus to the Jews having believed him, If ye remain in my word, ye are truly my disciples.

¹⁷ He says to him the third time, Simon of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved that he said the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said to him, Lord, thou knowest all; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.

²² And supporting the souls of the disciples, beseeching to remain in the faith, that through many pressures we must come into the kingdom of God.

¹⁸ And when they came to him, he said to them, Ye know, from the first day in which I embarked for Asia, how I was with you all the time ¹⁹ Serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears, and temptations, having happened to me by the insidious plots of the Jews:

³³ Silver or gold, or clothing, of none have I eagerly desired. ³⁴ And ye yourselves know, that to my necessities, and to those being with me, these hands served.

⁷ To them truly by perseverance of the good work they seek glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

¹⁹ And we know that whatever says the law, it speaks to them in the law: that every mouth be shut, and all the world be culpable to God. ²⁰ Therefore from the works of the law shall no flesh be justified before him: for by the law the knowledge of sin. ²¹ But now without law the justice of God has been made apparent, being testified by the law and by the prophets; ²² And the justice of God by faith of Jesus Christ to all and upon all believing: for there is no distinction:

¹ Therefore now no condemnation to them in Christ Jesus, walking not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

³³ Who shall demand payment for the chosen of God? God justifying. ³⁴ Who, he condemning Christ having died, and rather also raised again, who is at the right hand of God, and who intercedes for us.

¹⁹ Thou wilt then say to me, Why does he yet blame For who has withstood his will?

³³ O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! his judgments how unsearchable, and his ways not traced out!

³ And to me it is the least that I be judged by you, or by man's day: but neither do I judge myself. ⁴ For I know nothing by myself; but in this I have not been justified: and he examining me is the Lord.

¹² For our boasting is this, the testimony of our consciousness, that in simplicity and purity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we turned back in the world, and more eminently to you.

¹⁹ For as God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their faults; and having set in us the word of reconciliation. ²⁰ For Christ therefore are we ambassadors, as of God beseeching by us: we pray for the sake of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.

⁹ And he said to me, My grace suffices thee: for my power is perfected in weakness. Therefore very willingly will I boast rather in my weaknesses, that Christ's power may lodge upon me. ¹⁰ Therefore am I contented in weaknesses, in reproaches, in necessities in expulsions, in extremities for Christ: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

⁹ Having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his benevolence which he purposed in himself: ¹⁰ For the arrangement of the completion of the times, to unite in a whole all things in Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon earth; in him: ¹¹ In whom also we were cast by lot, determined beforehand according to the purpose of him performing all things according to the counsel of his will:

¹⁰ Ye witnesses, and God, how holily and justly and unblamably we were to you the believing:

³ For none to be shaken in these pressures: for ye yourselves know that for this we are placed.

⁹ For God set us not for wrath, but for the acquisition of salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁶ Who only having immortality, inhabiting inaccessible light; which none of men saw, nor can see; to whom honour and might forever. Amen.

¹⁹ Truly the firm foundation of God has stood, having this seal, The Lord knows them being his. And, Let every one naming the name of Christ remove from iniquity.

⁶ Since therefore it remains for some to come into it, and they before announced of the good news came not in through unbelief:

³⁸ And the just one shall live by faith; but if he draw down, my soul is not contented in him. ³⁹ And we are not of drawing down to perdition; but of faith to the acquisition of the soul.

¹⁷ By faith Abraham had brought near Isaac, being tried: and he having received the promises brought near the only born,

² Deem all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various trials; ³ Knowing that the proof of your faith works patience. ⁴ And let patience have a perfect work, that ye be perfect and entire, being left behind in nothing.

¹² Happy the man who endures temptation: for being tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them loving him.

¹⁷ Every good donation and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom not one change, or shadow of turning.

⁷ That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

² As new born babes, long for the sincere milk pertaining to the word, that ye might be nourished with it:

⁸ And a stone of stumble, and rock of offence, they disbelieving the word stumble: to which also they were set.

²⁰ For if having escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and again entangling with these, they be conquered, the last things have been to them worse than the first. ²¹ For it was better for them not to have known the way of justice, than, having known, to turn back from the holy command delivererd to them. ²² And that of the true proverb has happened to them, The dog having turned back to his own vomit; and the sow having been washed to the rolling of the mire.

¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they had remained with us, but, that they might be manifested, that they are not all of us.