Psalms 49 Cross References - MSTC

¹ {To the Chanter, a Psalm of the children of Korah} O Hear this, all ye people: ponder it with your ears, all ye that dwell in the world, ² high and low, rich and poor, one with another. ³ My mouth shall speak of wisdom, and my heart shall muse of understanding. ⁴ I will incline mine ear to the parable, and show my dark speech upon the harp. ⁵ Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, and when wickedness at my heels compasseth me round about? ⁶ There be some that put their trust in their goods, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches. ⁷ But no man may deliver his brother, nor make agreement unto God for him, ⁸ for it costeth more to redeem their souls, so that he must let that alone forever. ⁹ Yea, though he live long, and see not the grave. ¹⁰ For he seeth that wise men also die and perish together, as well as the ignorant and foolish, and leave their riches for others. ¹¹ And yet they think that their houses shall continue forever, and that their dwelling-places shall endure from one generation to another; and call the lands after their own names. ¹² Nevertheless, man will not abide in honour, seeing he may be compared unto the beasts that perish; this is the way of them. ¹³ This way of theirs is very foolishness, and yet their posterity praise it with their mouth. Selah. ¹⁴ They lie in the hell like sheep, death gnaweth upon them, and the righteous shall have domination of them in the morning. Their beauty shall consume in the sepulchre, and hell shall be their dwelling. ¹⁵ But God shall deliver my soul from the power of hell, when he receiveth me. Selah. ¹⁶ Be not thou afraid, though one be made rich, or if the glory of his house be increased; ¹⁷ for he shall carry nothing away with him when he dieth, neither shall his pomp follow him. ¹⁸ For while he lived, he counted himself a happy man; and so long as thou doest well unto thyself, men will speak good of thee. ¹⁹ But when he followeth his fathers' generation, he shall never see light any more. ²⁰ When a man is in honour and hath no understanding, he is compared unto the brute beasts — and becometh like unto them.

¹⁷ And Cain lay with his wife, which conceived and bare Enoch. And he was building a city and called the name of it after the name of his son, Enoch.

²⁴ and then Enoch lived a godly life, and was no more seen - for God took him away.

¹⁵ Nevertheless, thou shalt go unto thy fathers in peace, and shalt be buried when thou art of a good age:

¹ And Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, how they said, "Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's, and of our father's goods, hath he gotten all this honour."

¹⁷ Dan shall be a serpent in the way, and an adder in the path, and bite the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

⁸ Unto him I speak mouth to mouth and he seeth the sight and the fashion of the LORD, and not through riddles. Wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?"

⁷ And he began his parable, and said, "Balak the king of Moab hath fetched me from Mesopotamia out of the mountains of the east saying, 'Come and curse me Jacob, come and defy me Israel.'

¹⁴ Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi, and called the towns of Bashan after his own name: the towns of Jair unto this day.

¹⁹ so that when he heareth the words of this curse, he bless himself in his heart saying, 'I shall have peace; I will therefore work after the lust of mine own heart, that the drunken may perish with the thirsty.'

² My doctrine drop, as doth the rain; and my speech flow, as doth the dew — as the mizzling upon the herbs, and as the drops upon the grass.

⁷ The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich; bringeth low, and heaveth up on high. ⁸ He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill: to set them among princes, and to inherit them with the seat of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he hath set the round world upon them.

¹² And Samuel rose early, to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel that Saul was come to Carmel, and had set him up a pillar of triumph, and was turned and departed and gone to Gilgal.

⁶ And thus wise say unto my friend, "Peace be to thee, peace be to thine house, and peace be unto all that thou hast.

²⁰ And yet I hope my blood shall not fall to the earth before the face of the LORD, though the king of Israel be come out to hunt a flea, as men hunt the partridges in the mountains."

¹⁸ And this Absalom, yet in his lifetime, took and reared up a pillar, which is yet in King's Dale. For he said, "I have no male child. And therefore, to keep my name in remembrance do I it." And he called the pillar after his own name. And it is called unto this day, Absalom's pillar.

⁶ And Baasha fell on sleep with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah. And Elah his son reigned in his stead.

¹ After these acts did the king promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and set him high, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him. ² And all the king's servants that were in the gate, bowed their knees, and did reverenced unto Haman: for the king had so commanded. But Mordecai bowed not the knee, and worshiped him not.

² And all the king's servants that were in the gate, bowed their knees, and did reverenced unto Haman: for the king had so commanded. But Mordecai bowed not the knee, and worshiped him not. ³ Then the king's servants which were in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai, "Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?" ⁴ And when they spake this daily unto him and he followed them not, they told Haman, that they might see whether Mordecai's matters would endure: for he had told them that he was a Jew. ⁵ And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not the knee unto him, nor worshipped him, he was full of indignation ⁶ and thought it too little to lay hands only on Mordecai: for they had showed him the nation of Mordecai. Wherefore, he sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole empire of Ahasuerus and were of the nation of Mordecai.

¹¹ and told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children all together how the king had promoted him so greatly, and how that he was taken above the princes and servants of the king.

¹¹ and told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children all together how the king had promoted him so greatly, and how that he was taken above the princes and servants of the king. ¹² Haman said moreover, "Yea and Esther the queen let no man come with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared, except me, and tomorrow am I bidden unto her also with the king. ¹³ But in all this am I not satisfied as long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate." ¹⁴ Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, "Let them make a gallows of fifty cubits high, and tomorrow speak thou unto the king, that Mordecai may be hanged thereon, if thou comest merrily with the king unto the banquet." Haman was well content withal, and caused a gallows to be prepared.

¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had made for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

²¹ and said, "Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I turn thither again. The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; now blessed be the name of the LORD."

²¹ Is not their dignity taken away with them? They shall die - and not in wisdom.'

¹³ Though I tarry never so much, yet the grave is my house, and I must make my bed in the dark. ¹⁴ I call corruption my father, and the worms call I my mother and my sister.

¹³ They spend their days in wealthiness: but suddenly, they go down to hell.

²⁶ Now sleep they both alike in the earth, and the worms cover them.

¹⁹ O that they, for the wickedness which they have done, were drawn to the hell, sooner than snow melteth at the heat. ²⁰ O that all compassion upon them were forgotten: that their dainties were worms, that they were clean put out of remembrance, and utterly hewn down like an unfruitful tree.

¹⁹ When the rich man dieth, he carrieth nothing with him: he is gone in the twinkling of an eye.

²³ Sure I am, that thou wilt deliver me unto death: whereas a lodging is prepared for all men living.

²⁴ "Have I put my trust in gold? Or, have I said to the finest gold of all, 'Thou art my confidence?' ²⁵ Have I rejoiced because my substance was great, and because my hand gat so much?

³ My heart shall order my words aright, and my lips shall talk of pure wisdom.

³⁰ that he keepeth his soul from perishing, and letteth him enjoy the light of the living.

³³ If thou hast nothing, then hear me, and hold thy tongue, so shall I teach thee wisdom."

¹⁹ 'Ungodly men are ye.' He hath none respect unto the persons of the lordly, and regardeth not the rich more than the poor. For they be all the work of his hands.

¹⁸ For then shall not thy cause be stilled with cruelty, nor pacified with many gifts. ¹⁹ Hath God ordained then, that the glorious life of thee, and all such mighty men should not be put down?

⁹ For there is no faithfulness in their mouths; they dissemble in their hearts. Their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

¹⁷ The wicked must be turned unto hell, and all the people that forget God.

³ For the ungodly hath made boast of his own heart's desire, and speaketh good of the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

⁶ For he hath said in his heart, "Tush, I shall never be cast down; there shall no harm happen unto me."

¹⁰ For why? Thou shalt not leave my soul in hell, neither shalt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.

¹⁰ For why? Thou shalt not leave my soul in hell, neither shalt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption. ¹¹ Thou shalt show me the path of life; in thy presence is the fulness of joy, and at thy righthand there is pleasure for evermore.

¹⁴ From the men of thy hand, O LORD, from the men, I say, and from the evil world, which have their portion in this life, whose bellies thou fillest with thy hid treasure.

¹⁴ Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD; my strength and my redeemer.

¹⁶ For many dogs are come about me, the counsel of the wicked layeth siege against me.

²⁹ All such as be fat upon earth have eaten and worshipped. All they that go down into the dust shall kneel before him; and no man hath quickened his own soul.

⁴ Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staff comfort me.

¹ {A Psalm of David} The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom then should I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom then shall I be afraid? ² When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

⁵ For his wrath endureth but the twinkling of an eye, and in his pleasure is life; heaviness may well endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

⁵ Into thy hands I commend my spirit; for thou hast redeemed me, O LORD, thou God of truth.

⁸ Let all the earth fear the LORD; stand in awe of him, all ye that dwell in the world.

¹¹ Come, ye children, and hearken unto me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

¹ {A Psalm of David} Fret not thyself because of the ungodly; neither be thou envious against the evil doers.

⁷ Hold thee still in the LORD, and abide patiently upon him: but grieve not thyself at one that hath prosperity, and liveth in abomination.

³⁰ The mouth of the righteous is exercised in wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.

⁴ For my wickednesses are gone over my head, and are like a sore burden, too heavy for me to bear.

⁵ Behold, thou hast made my days a span long, and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. Selah ⁶ Yea every man walketh as it were a shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain: he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.

¹¹ When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment; every man therefore is but vanity. Selah.

¹¹ Thou lettest us be eaten up like sheep, and scatterest us among the Heathen.

¹ {To the Chanter, upon Shoshannim, an instruction of the children of Korah; a song of love} My heart is inditing of a good matter; I speak the things which I have made unto the King. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

¹ {To the Chanter, a song of the children of Korah upon Alamoth} God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

¹ {To the Chanter, a song of the children of Korah upon Alamoth} God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. ² Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be moved, and though the hills be carried into the midst of the sea;

³ He shall subdue the people under us, and the Heathen under our feet.

¹ {A Song of a Psalm of the children of Korah} Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised, in the city of our God, even upon his holy hill.

⁵ Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, and when wickedness at my heels compasseth me round about?

¹² Nevertheless, man will not abide in honour, seeing he may be compared unto the beasts that perish; this is the way of them.

¹⁷ for he shall carry nothing away with him when he dieth, neither shall his pomp follow him.

²⁰ When a man is in honour and hath no understanding, he is compared unto the brute beasts — and becometh like unto them.

¹ {The Psalm of Asaph} The LORD, even the most mighty God, hath spoken, and called the world; from the rising up of the sun unto the going down of the same.

⁷ "Lo, this is the man that took not God for his strength, but trusted unto the multitude of his riches, and was mighty in his wickedness!"

⁶ They hold all together, and keep themselves close, and mark my steps, when they lay wait for my soul. ⁷ Shall they escape for their wickedness? Thou, O God, in thy displeasure shalt cast them down.

¹³ For thou hast delivered my soul from death, and my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

⁹ As for men they are but vanity; the children of men are deceitful. Upon the weights they are altogether lighter than vanity itself. ¹⁰ O trust not in wrong or robbery; give not yourselves unto vanity. If riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

⁶ They imagine wickedness, and keep it secret among themselves; every man in the deep of his heart.

¹⁸ Namely, how thou hast set them in a slippery places, that thou mayest cast them down headlong and destroy them. ¹⁹ O how suddenly do they consume, perish and come to a fearful end!

²² So foolish was I, and ignorant, even as it were a beast before thee.

²⁴ Thou leadest me with thy counsel, and afterward receivest me unto glory.

¹ {An Instruction of Asaph} Hear my law, O my people; incline your ears unto the words of my mouth. ² I will open my mouth in similitudes, and will speak forth things which have been kept secret from the beginning of the world;

⁷ But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the tyrants."

¹³ For great is thy mercy toward me; and thou hast delivered my soul from the nethermost hell.

⁴⁸ What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? May a man deliver his own soul from the hand of hell? Selah.

⁶ An unwise man will not know this, and a fool will not understand it — ⁷ that the ungodly are green as grass, and that all the works of wickedness do flourish, to be destroyed forever.

⁸ Take heed, ye unwise among the people: O ye fools, when will ye understand?

³⁴ O that my words might please him, for my joy is in the LORD.

¹³⁰ When thy word goeth forth, it giveth light and understanding unto the simple.

⁶ and he that is endued with understanding shall obtain wit to perceive a parable, and the interpretation thereof; the words of the wise, and the dark speeches of the same.

²⁰ Wisdom crieth without and putteth forth her voice in the streets. ²¹ She calleth before the congregation in the open gates, and showeth her words through the city, saying, ²² "O ye children, how long will ye love childishness? How long will the scorners delight in scorning, and the unwise be enemies unto knowledge? ²³ O turn you unto my correction: lo, I will express my mind unto you, and make you understand my words.

¹ Hear, O ye children, the fatherly exhortation, and take good heed, that ye may learn wisdom. ² Yea I shall give you a good reward, if ye will not forsake my law.

²² The wickedness of the ungodly shall catch himself, and with the snares of his own sins shall he be trapped.

⁶ Give ear, for I will speak of great matters, and open my lips to tell things that be right. ⁷ For my throat shall be talking of the truth, and my lips abhor ungodliness. ⁸ All the words of my mouth are righteous, there is no frowardness nor falsity therein. ⁹ They are all plain to such as will understand, and right to them that find knowledge. ¹⁰ Receive my doctrine therefore, and not silver: and my knowledge, more than fine gold. ¹¹ For wisdom is more worth than precious stones; yea, all the things that thou canst desire, are not to be compared unto it.

² Treasures that are wickedly gotten, profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.

¹⁵ The rich man's goods are his stronghold; but poverty oppresseth the poor.

⁴ Riches help not in the day of vengeance; but righteousness delivereth from death.

²⁸ He that trusteth in his riches shall have a fall; but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

¹ Whoso loveth wisdom, will be content to be reformed; but he that hateth to be reproved, is a fool.

² Whether riches or poverty do meet us, it cometh all of God.

¹⁷ My son, bow down thine ear, and hearken unto the words of wisdom, apply thy mind unto my doctrine -

²⁰ Have not I warned thee very oft with counsel and learning? ²¹ That I might show thee the truth and that thou with the verity mightest answer them that lay anything against thee?

⁵ Why wilt thou set thine eye upon the thing, which suddenly vanisheth away? For riches make themselves wings, and take their flight like an Eagle into the air.

¹⁰ If thou be overseen and negligent in time of need, then is thy strength but small.

¹² When righteous men are in prosperity, then doth honour flourish; but when the ungodly come up, the state of men changeth.

² For though I am the least of all, and have no man's understanding

¹⁶ For the wise are ever as little in remembrance as the foolish, and all the days for to come shall be forgotten, yea the wise man dieth as well as the fool. ¹⁷ Thus began I to be weary of my life, in so much that I could away with nothing that is done under the Sun, for all was but vanity and vexation of mind: ¹⁸ Yea, I was weary of all my labour, which I had taken under the Sun, because I should be fain to leave them unto another man, that cometh after me. ¹⁹ For who knoweth, whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? And yet shall he be lord of all my labours, which I with such wisdom have taken under the Sun. Is not this a vain thing? ²⁰ So I turned me to refrain my mind from all such travail, as I took under the Sun: ²¹ Forsomuch as a man should weary himself with wisdom, with understanding and opportunity, and yet be fain to leave his labours unto another, that never sweat for them. This is also a vain thing and a great misery.

²⁶ He giveth unto man, what it pleaseth him; whether it be wisdom, understanding, or gladness. But unto the sinner he giveth weariness and sorrow, that he may gather and heap together the thing, that afterward shall be given unto him whom it pleaseth God. This is now a vain thing, yea a very disquietness and vexation of mind.

¹⁸ I communed with mine own heart also concerning the children of men: how God hath chosen them, and yet letteth them appear as though they were beasts.

¹⁸ I communed with mine own heart also concerning the children of men: how God hath chosen them, and yet letteth them appear as though they were beasts. ¹⁹ For it happeneth unto men as it doth unto beasts, and as the one dieth, so dieth the other. Yea, they have both one manner of breath, so that - in this - a man hath no preeminence above a beast, but all are subdued unto vanity.

¹⁹ For it happeneth unto men as it doth unto beasts, and as the one dieth, so dieth the other. Yea, they have both one manner of breath, so that - in this - a man hath no preeminence above a beast, but all are subdued unto vanity. ²⁰ They go all unto one place, for as they be all of dust, so shall they all turn unto dust again. ²¹ Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the breath of the beast that goeth down into the earth?

²¹ Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the breath of the beast that goeth down into the earth?

¹³ Yet is there a sore plague, which I have seen under the sun: namely, riches kept to the hurt of him that hath them in possession. ¹⁴ For oft times they perish with his great misery and trouble: and if he have a child it getteth nothing. ¹⁵ Like as he came naked out of his mother's womb, so goeth he thither again, and carryeth nothing away with him of all his labour.

¹⁵ Like as he came naked out of his mother's womb, so goeth he thither again, and carryeth nothing away with him of all his labour. ¹⁶ This is a miserable plague, that he shall go away even as he came. What helpeth him then, that he hath labored in the wind?

⁸ Neither is there any man that hath power over the spirit, to keep still the spirit, nor to have any power in the time of death: it is not he also that can make an end of the battle, neither may ungodliness deliver him that meddleth withall.

¹ For all these things purposed I in my mind to seek out. The righteous and wise, yea and their servants also are in the hand of God: and there is no man that knoweth either love or hate, but all things are before them. ² It happeneth unto one as unto another; It goeth with the righteous as with the ungodly; with the good and clean as with the unclean; with him that offereth as with him that offereth not; like as it goeth with the virtuous, so goeth it also with the sinner; As it happeneth unto the perjured, so happeneth it also unto him that is afraid to be foresworn.

¹² For man knoweth not his time, but like as the fish are taken with the angle and as the birds are caught with the snare: Even so are men taken in the perilous time, when it cometh suddenly upon them.

⁷ Or dust be turned again unto earth from whence it came, and or the spirit return unto God, which gave it.

² Hear O heaven, and hearken O earth, for the LORD hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they are fallen away from me.

¹⁴ Therefore gapeth hell, and openeth her mouth marvelous wide: that their pride, boasting, and wealth, with such as rejoice therein, may descend into it.

³ What will ye do in time of the visitation and destruction, that shall come from far? To whom will ye run for help? Or to whom will ye give your honour, that he may keep it?

¹⁰ "I thought I should have gone to the gates of hell in my best age, and have wanted the residue of my years. ¹¹ I spake within myself, 'I shall never visit the LORD God in this life: I shall never see man among the dwellers of the world.

¹⁰ Be not afraid, for I will be with thee. Look not behind thee, for I will be thy God, to strengthen thee, help thee, and to keep thee with this righthand of mine. ¹¹ Behold, all they that resist thee, shall come to confusion and shame: and thine adversaries shall be destroyed and brought to naught.

⁶ "Behold, I have made thee a light, that thou shouldest be salvation, even unto the end of the world. Kings shall see, and rulers shall stand up and shall worship, because of the LORD, which is faithful; and the holy of Israel hath chosen thee.

⁴ Therefore thought I in myself, "Peradventure they are so simple and foolish, that they understand nothing of the LORD's way, and judgments of our God. ⁵ Therefore will I go unto their heads and rulers, and talk with them: if they know the way of the LORD, and the judgments of our God." But these, in like manner, have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds in sunder.

²³ Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD, "Let not the wise man rejoice in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength; neither the rich man in his riches.

⁸ They are altogether unlearned and unwise. All their cunning is but vanity:

³ But thou LORD, to whom I am well known, thou that hast seen, and proved my heart; take them away, like as a flock is carried to the slaughter house, and appoint them for the day of slaughter.

¹¹ The deceitful maketh a nest, but bringeth forth no young: He cometh by riches, but not righteously. In the midst of his life must he leave them behind him, and at the last be found a very fool.

¹⁷ But whatsoever goeth out of our own mouth, that will we do: We will do sacrifice, and offer oblations unto the Queen of heaven: like as we and our forefathers, our kings and our heads have done in the cities of Judah, and in the streets and fields of Jerusalem. For then had we plenteousness of victuals, then were we in prosperity, and no misfortune came upon us.

⁴⁹ Then said I, "O LORD, they will say of me, 'Tush, they are but fables that he telleth.'"

⁴ With thy wisdom and thy understanding, thou hast gotten thee great wealthiness, and gathered treasure of silver and gold. ⁵ With thy great wisdom and occupying, hast thou increased thy power, and because of thy great riches, thy heart is proud.

¹⁰ Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD God: At the same time shall many things come into thy mind, so that thou shalt imagine mischief,

¹⁸ But the high saints shall receive a kingdom, and possess a kingdom, forever: even for ever and ever.'

²² till the time that the Ancient of Days came, that the judgment was given to the chiefest saints; and till the time that the saints had the kingdom in possession.

²³ After these kingdoms, while ungodliness is a growing, there shall arise a king of an unshamefast face, which shall be wise in dark speakings.

³ Then shall we have understanding, and endeavor ourselves to know the LORD. He shall go forth as the spring of the day, and come unto us as the evening and morning rain upon the earth."

² They consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. They go about with their own inventions, but I see them well enough.

⁸ Ephraim thinketh thus, "Tush, I am rich, I have good enough: In all my works shall not one fault be found, that I have offended."

¹⁴ had not I defended him from the grave, and delivered him from death. O death, I will be thy death: O hell, I will be thy sting.

¹³ Therefore the wise must now be fain to hold his tongue, so wicked a time is it.

² Hear all ye people, mark this well, O earth, and all that therein is: Yea, the LORD God himself be witness among you, even the Lord from his holy temple.

⁵ What is now become of your forefathers and the prophets? Are they yet still alive?

¹¹ For from the rising up of the sun unto the going down of the same, my name is great among the Gentiles. Yea, in every place shall there sacrifice be done, and a clean meat offering offered up unto my name: for my name is great among the Heathen, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

³ Ye shall tread down the ungodly: for they shall be like the ashes under the soles of your feet, in the day that I shall make, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

¹² And the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the utter darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

¹⁵ He that hath ears to hear withal, let him hear.

³⁵ A good man out of the good treasure of his heart, bringeth forth good things. And an evil man out of his evil treasure, bringeth forth evil things.

⁹ Whosoever hath ears to hear, let him hear."

¹¹ He answered, and said unto them, "It is given unto you to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. ¹² For whosoever hath, to him shall be given: and he shall have abundance. But whosoever hath not: from him shall be taken away even that same that he hath. ¹³ Therefore speak I to them in similitudes: For though they see, they see not; and hearing, they hear not, neither understand. ¹⁴ And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which prophecy saith, 'With the ears ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and with the eyes ye shall see, and shall not perceive." ¹⁵ For this people's hearts are waxed gross. And their ears were dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their hearts, and should turn, that I might heal them.

³⁵ to fulfill that which was spoken by the prophet saying, "I will open my mouth in similitudes, and will speak forth things which have been kept secret from the beginning of the world."

²⁶ What shall it profit a man, though he should win all the whole world, if he lose his own soul? Or else, what shall a man give to redeem his soul again withal?

²⁸ Even as the son of man came, not to be ministered unto, but to minister: and to give his life for the redemption of many."

¹³ Then said the King to his ministers, 'Take and bind him hand and foot, and cast him into utter darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

⁹ But the wise answered, saying, 'Not so, lest there be not enough for us and you, but go rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.'

¹⁹ Go therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father and the son and the holy ghost; ²⁰ teaching them to observe all things, whatsoever I commanded you. And lo, I am with you always even until the end of the world."

²⁴ And his disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answered again, and said unto them, "Children: how hard is it for them, that trust in their riches, to enter into the kingdom of God?

³⁹ And the Lord said to him, "Now do ye, O Pharisees, make clean the outside of the cup, and of the platter: but your inward parts are full of ravening and wickedness.

⁴⁷ Woe be to you that build the sepulchers of the prophets: for your fathers killed them: ⁴⁸ Truly ye bear witness, that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build their sepulchers.

³ For whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness: that same shall be heard in light. And that which ye have spoken in the ear, even in secret places, shall be preached even on the top of the houses.

¹⁹ and I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up in store for many years, take thine ease: eat, drink and be merry.' ²⁰ But God said unto him, 'Thou fool, this night will they fetch away thy soul again from thee. Then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?'

²² And it fortuned that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: The rich man also died, and was buried in hell. ²³ And being in hell, in torments, he lift up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom; ²⁴ And he cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame.'

²⁷ Then he said, 'I pray thee therefore father, send him to my father's house. ²⁸ For I have five brethren: for to warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.'

³⁰ that ye may eat, and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on seats, and judge the twelve tribes of Israel."

⁴⁶ And Jesus cried with a great voice and said, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit." And when he thus had said, he gave up the ghost.

⁵¹ "Verily, verily I say unto you, if a man keep my sayings, he shall never see death." ⁵² Then said the Jews to him, "Now know we that thou hast the devil. Abraham is dead, and also the prophets, and yet thou sayest, 'If a man keep my saying he shall never taste of death.'

³ And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again: and receive you even unto myself, that where I am, there may ye be also.

²⁷ because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt suffer thine holy to see corruption.

³¹ He saw before, and spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul should not be left in hell: neither his flesh should see corruption.

⁵⁹ And they stoned Stephen, calling on and saying, "Lord Jesus receive my spirit."

²² Repent, therefore, of this thy wickedness, and pray God that the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.

²⁰ Herod was displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon. And they came all at once, and made intercession unto Blastus the king's chamberlain, and desired peace, because their country was nourished by the king's land. ²¹ And upon a day appointed, Herod arrayed him in royal apparel, and set him in his seat, and made an oration unto them. ²² And the people gave a shout, saying, "It is the voice of a god and not of a man."

³³ God hath now fulfilled unto us their children, in that he raised up Jesus again, even as it is written in the second psalm, 'Thou art my son, this same day begat I thee.'

³⁵ Wherefore he saith also in another place, 'Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy to see corruption.' ³⁶ Howbeit David, after he had in his time fulfilled the will of God, he slept, and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption. ³⁷ But he whom God raised again, saw no corruption.

²⁴ saying, 'Fear not Paul, for thou must be brought before Caesar. And lo, God hath given unto thee all that sail with thee.'

²⁹ Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also the God of the gentiles? Yes, even of the Gentiles also.

¹² Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by the means of sin; And so death went over all men, insomuch that all men sinned. ¹³ For even unto the time of the law was sin in the world: but sin was not regarded, as long as there was no law: ¹⁴ Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them also that sinned not, with like transgression as did Adam: which is the similitude of him that is to come.

³³ Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's chosen? It is God that justifieth: ³⁴ who then shall condemn? It is Christ which is dead; Yea rather which is risen again, which is also on the righthand of God and maketh intercession for us.

³⁶ As it is written, "For thy sake are we killed all day long, and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain."

¹⁸ But I ask, Have they not heard? No doubt, their sound went out into all lands: and their words into the ends of the world.

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He compasseth the wise in their craftiness."

² Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? If the world shall be judged by you: are ye not good enough to judge small trifles?

⁴³ It is sown in dishonour, and riseth in honour. It is sown in weakness, and riseth in power.

¹² Seeing then that we have such trust, we use great boldness;

¹⁶ redeeming the time: for the days are evil.

²⁸ and in nothing fearing your adversaries: which is to them a token of perdition, and to you a sign of salvation, and that of God.

⁶ which gave himself a ransom for all men, that it should be testified at his time;

⁶ Godliness is great riches, if a man be content with that he hath. ⁷ For we brought nothing into the world, and it is a plain case that we can carry nothing out.

⁷ For we brought nothing into the world, and it is a plain case that we can carry nothing out. ⁸ When we have food and raiment, let us therewith be content. ⁹ They that will be rich, fall into temptation and snares, and into many foolish and noisome lusts, which drown men in perdition and destruction. ¹⁰ For covetousness is the root of all evil, which while some lusted after, they erred from the faith, and tangled themselves with many sorrows.

¹⁷ Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not exceeding wise, and that they trust not in the uncertain riches, but in the living God, which giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy them,

¹⁵ And forasmuch also as thou hast known holy scripture of a child, which is able to make thee wise unto salvation through the faith, which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ For all scripture given by inspiration of God, is profitable to teach, to improve, to amend, and to instruct in righteousness, ¹⁷ that the man of God may be perfect, and prepared unto all good works.

²⁷ And as it is appointed unto men that they shall once die, and then cometh the judgment,

⁹ Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted, ¹⁰ and the rich in that he is made low. For even as the flower of the grass shall he vanish away. ¹¹ The sun riseth with heat, and the grass withereth and his flower falleth away, and the beauty of the fashion of it perisheth: even so shall the rich man perish with his abundance.

¹ Brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of glory in respect of persons. ² If there come into your company a man with a golden ring, and in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment, ³ and ye have a respect to him that weareth the gay clothing and say unto him, "Sit thou here in a good place," and say unto the poor, "stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool" - ⁴ are ye not even partial in your selves, and have judged after evil thoughts? ⁵ Hearken, my dear beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world, which are rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he promised to them that love him? ⁶ But ye have despised the poor. Are not the rich they which oppress you: and they which draw you before judges? ⁷ Do not they speak evil of that good name after which ye be named?

¹⁸ Forasmuch as ye know how that ye were not redeemed with corruptible gold and silver from your vain conversation, which ye received by the traditions of the fathers,

²⁴ For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man is as the flower of grass; the grass is withered, and the flower falleth away,

¹³ They are raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame. They are wandering stars, to whom is reserved the mist of darkness forever.

⁷ Let him that hath ears hear, what the spirit saith unto the congregations. To him that overcometh, will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.'

¹¹ Let him that hath ears hear, what the spirit saith to the congregations: He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.'

¹⁷ Let him that hath ears hear what the spirit sayth unto the congregations: To him that overcometh will I give to eat Manna that is hid, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth, saving he that receiveth it.'

²⁶ and whosoever overcometh and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over nations, ²⁷ and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and as the vessels of a potter, shall he break them to shivers. Even as I received of my father.

²⁹ Let him that hath ears hear what the spirit says to the congregations.'

⁹ and they sung a new song saying, "Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof, for thou wast killed, and hast redeemed us by thy blood, out of all kindreds, and tongues, and people, and nations,

¹⁵ And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in dens, and in rocks of the hills, ¹⁶ and said to the hills, and rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the presence of him that sitteth on the seat, and from the wrath of the lamb, ¹⁷ for the great day of his wrath is come; And who can endure it?"

³ and I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world wondered at the beast, ⁴ and they worshipped the dragon, which gave power unto the beast, and they worshipped the beast, saying, "Who is like unto the beast? who is able to war with him?"

¹³ And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead, which hereafter die in the Lord: Even so, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors; but their works shall follow them.'"

⁴ And I saw seats, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God: which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had taken his mark upon their foreheads, or on their hands: and they lived, and reigned with Christ a thousand years. ⁵ But the others of the dead men lived not again, until the thousand years were finished. This is that first resurrection.

²⁴ And the people which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory unto it.

²⁶ And in to it shall they bring the glory and honour of the nations.