Bible verses about "excuses" | Bishops

¹ Moyses aunswered, and said: See, they wyll not beleue me, nor harken vnto my voyce: but wyll saye, The Lorde hath not appeared vnto thee

¹⁰ And Elisa sent a messenger vnto him, saying: Go, and washe thee in Iordane seuen tymes, and thy fleshe shall come againe to thee, and thou shalt be cleansed ¹¹ But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and saide: Beholde, I thought with my selfe, he would surely come out, and stande and call on the name of the Lord his god, & put his hand on the place, that he may heale the leprosie ¹² Are not Abana and Pharphar riuers of Damasco, better then all the waters of Israel? If I washe me also in them, shal I not be cleansed? And so he turned him, and departed with displeasure ¹³ And his seruauntes came, and communed with him, and saide: Father, if the prophet had byd thee do some great thing, oughtest thou not to haue done it? How much rather then when he saith to thee, washe, and be cleane ¹⁴ Then went he downe, & washed him selfe seuen tymes in Iordane, according to the saying of the man of God, and his fleshe came againe lyke vnto the fleshe of a litle childe, and he was cleansed

⁷ And the Lorde aunswered me thus: Say not so, I am to young: for thou shalt go to all that I shall sende thee vnto, and whatsoeuer I commaunde thee, that shalt thou speake ⁸ Be not afrayde of their faces: for I am with thee to deliuer thee, saith the Lorde

⁹ The Lorde that hath promised, is not slacke, as some men count slacknesse, but is pacient to vswarde [forasmuch] as he woulde haue no man lost, but wyll receaue all men to repentaunce

¹² And Adam said: The woman whom thou gauest [to be] with me, she gaue me of the tree, and I dyd eate

¹² And the angel of the Lorde appeared vnto him, and said vnto him: The Lord is with thee, thou mightie man ¹³ And Gedeon aunswered him: Oh my Lord, if the Lorde be with vs, why is all this come vpon vs? Yea, & where be all his miracles which our fathers tolde vs of, and sayd: Dyd not the Lord bryng vs out of Egypt? But nowe the Lord hath forsaken vs, and deliuered vs into the handes of the Madianites ¹⁴ And the Lord loked vpon him, and sayde: Go hence in this thy might, and thou shalt deliuer Israel out of the handes of the Madianites: Haue not I sent thee ¹⁵ And he aunswered him: Oh Lorde, wherwith shall I saue Israel? Behold my kinred is poore in Manasses, and I am litle in my fathers house ¹⁶ The Lord sayd vnto him: I will be with thee, & thou shalt smyte the Madianites, as they were but one man ¹⁷ And he aunswered him: Oh, yf I haue founde grace in thy syght, than shew me a a signe, that it is thou that talkest with me

²¹ And another, of the number of his disciples, sayde vnto hym: Lorde, suffer me first to go and bury my father

¹ Therefore art thou inexcusable, O ma, whosoeuer thou be that iudgest. For in that same wherin thou iudgest another, thou condempnest thy self. For thou that iudgest, doest euen ye selfe same thynges ² But we are sure that the iudgement of god is according to the trueth, against them which commit such thynges ³ Thinkest thou this, O thou man that iudgest them whiche do such thynges, and doest the same [thy selfe] that thou shalt escape the iudgement of God ⁴ Eyther despisest thou the rychesse of his goodnes, & pacience, and long sufferaunce, not knowyng that the kyndnesse of god leadeth thee to repentauce ⁵ But thou after thy stubbernnesse and heart that can not repent, heapest vnto thy selfe wrath, agaynst the daye of wrath and declaration of the righteous iudgement of God ⁶ Which wyl rewarde euery man accordyng to his deedes ⁷ To them, whiche by continuyng in well doyng seke for glorie, and honour, and immortalitie, eternall lyfe ⁸ But vnto them that are contentious, & that do not obey the trueth, but obey vnrighteousnes [shall come] indignation, and wrath ⁹ Tribulation, and anguishe, vpon euery soule of man that doeth euyll, of the Iewe first, and also of the Greke ¹⁰ But glorie, and honour, and peace to euery man that doeth good, to ye Iewe first, and also to the Greke ¹¹ For there is no respect of persos with God ¹² For whosoeuer hath sinned without lawe, shall also perishe without lawe: And as many as haue sinned in ye lawe, shalbe iudged by the lawe ¹³ (For in the sight of God, they are not righteous whiche heare the lawe: but the doers of the lawe shalbe iustified ¹⁴ For when the Gentiles, which haue not the lawe, do of nature the thynges conteyned in the lawe: they hauing not the lawe, are a lawe vnto them selues ¹⁵ Which shewe the workes of the lawe written in their heartes, their conscience bearing them witnesse, & their thoughtes, accusyng one another, or excusyng, ¹⁶ At the day when God shall iudge the secretes of men by Iesus Christe, accordyng to my Gospell ¹⁷ Behold, thou art called a Iewe, and restest in the lawe, and makest thy boast of God ¹⁸ And knowest his wyll, and alowest the thinges that be excellent, infourmed by the lawe ¹⁹ And beleuest that thou thy selfe art a guyde of the blynde, a lyght of them which are in darknesse ²⁰ An infourmer of them whiche lacke discretion, a teacher of the vnlearned: which hast the fourme of knowledge, & of the trueth in the lawe ²¹ Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest not thy selfe? Thou preachest a man shoulde not steale, yet thou stealest ²² Thou that sayest a man shoulde not commit adulterie, breakest wedlocke. Thou abhorrest idoles, and yet robbest God of his honour ²³ Thou that makest thy boast of ye lawe, through breakyng the lawe dishonorest God ²⁴ For the name of God is euyll spoken of among the Gentiles, through you: As it is written ²⁵ For circumcision veryly auayleth, yf thou kepe the lawe: But yf thou be a breaker of the lawe, thy circumcision is made vncircumcision ²⁶ Therefore if the vncircumcisio kepe the ordinaunces of the law, shall not his vncircumcisio be counted for circumcisio ²⁷ And shall not vncircumcision which is by nature, if it kepe the law, iudge thee, which beyng vnder the letter & circumcision, doest transgresse the lawe ²⁸ For he is not a Iewe, whiche is a Iewe outwarde. Neither is that circucision which is outwarde in the fleshe ²⁹ But he is a Iewe whiche is one inwardly, and the circumcisio of ye heart, which consisteth in the spirite, and not in the letter [is circumcision] whose prayse is not of men, but of God

²⁰ For his inuisible thinges, being vnderstanded by his workes, through the creation of the worlde, are seene, that is, both his eternall power and godhead: So that they are without excuse

¹ Therefore art thou inexcusable, O ma, whosoeuer thou be that iudgest. For in that same wherin thou iudgest another, thou condempnest thy self. For thou that iudgest, doest euen ye selfe same thynges

¹³ And the Lord God sayd vnto the woman: Why hast thou done this? And the woman sayde: the serpent begyled me, and I dyd eate

⁴ The worde of the Lorde spake thus vnto me ⁵ Before I fashioned thee in thy mothers wombe, I dyd knowe thee: and or euer thou wast borne, I sanctified thee, and ordeyned thee to be a prophete vnto the people ⁶ Then sayde I: O Lorde God, I can not speake, for I am yet but young ⁷ And the Lorde aunswered me thus: Say not so, I am to young: for thou shalt go to all that I shall sende thee vnto, and whatsoeuer I commaunde thee, that shalt thou speake ⁸ Be not afrayde of their faces: for I am with thee to deliuer thee, saith the Lorde ⁹ And with that the Lorde stretched out his hande and touched my mouth: and the same Lorde sayde vnto me, Beholde, I put my wordes in thy mouth ¹⁰ And beholde, this day do I set thee ouer the people and kyngdomes, that thou mayest roote out, breake of, destroy, and make waste, and that thou mayest builde vp and plant

⁵⁹ And he sayde vnto another, folowe me. And the same sayde: Lorde, suffer me first to go and burie my father ⁶⁰ Iesus sayde vnto hym, Let the dead burie their dead: but go thou & preache the kyngdome of God ⁶¹ And another sayde: Lorde I wyll folowe thee, but let me first go byd them farewell, which are at home at my house ⁶² Iesus sayde vnto hym: No man that putteth his hande to the plowe, and loketh backe, is apt to the kyngdome of God

¹⁰ Moyses sayd vnto the Lorde: Oh my Lord, I am neither yesterday nor yer yesterday a man eloquet, neither sence thou hast spoken vnto thy seruaunt: but I am slowe mouthed, & slowe tounged ¹¹ And the Lorde sayd vnto hym: who hath made mans mouth? or who maketh the dumbe, or deafe, the seyng, or the blynde? Haue not I the Lorde ¹² And nowe go, and I wyll be with thy mouth, and teache thee what thou shalt say ¹³ He said: oh my Lorde, sende I pray thee, by the hande of hym whom thou wylt sende ¹⁴ And the Lorde was angry with Moyses, and sayde: Do not I knowe Aaron thy brother the Leuite, that he can speake? For lo, he commeth foorth to meete thee: and when he seeth thee, he wyll be glad in his heart

¹⁸ And they all at once began to make excuse. The first sayde vnto hym: I haue bought a farme, & I must needes go & see it, I pray thee haue me excused ¹⁹ And another sayde: I haue bought fiue yoke of oxen, and I go to proue them, I pray thee haue me excused ²⁰ And another sayde: I haue maryed a wyfe, and therfore I can not come