And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy.

In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

For they that keep holiness holily shall be judged holy: and they that have learned such things shall find what to answer.

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:

I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:

And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

For both they and their sons have married with their daughters, and the holy seed is mixed with the strange people of the land; and from the beginning of this matter the rulers and the great men have been partakers of this iniquity.

And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

O Lord, Almighty God of our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and of their righteous seed;

O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.

Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.

Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.

Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

If children live honestly, and have wherewithal, they shall cover the baseness of their parents.

An honest man is surety for his neighbour: but he that is impudent will forsake him.

Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

Honour thy father and mother both in word and deed, that a blessing may come upon thee from them.

Honour thy father with thy whole heart, and forget not the sorrows of thy mother.

Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.

And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;

He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise ye the Lord.

The greater thou art, the more humble thyself, and thou shalt find favour before the Lord.

Humble thyself greatly: for the vengeance of the ungodly is fire and worms.

For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:

Who answered and said, Because I may not worship idols made with hands, but the living God, who hath created the heaven and the earth, and hath sovereignty over all flesh.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?

Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.

For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.

Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:

Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.

Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?

The Lord hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.

Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;

And in my mother's womb was fashioned to be flesh in the time of ten months, being compacted in blood, of the seed of man, and the pleasure that came with sleep.

And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.

I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

Let all things be done decently and in order.

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.

Believe in him, and he will help thee; order thy way aright, and trust in him.

A wise judge will instruct his people; and the government of a prudent man is well ordered.

Leave off from sin, and order thine hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all wickedness.

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:

I shall set the people in order, and the nations shall be subject unto me.

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Go not after thy lusts, but refrain thyself from thine appetites.

Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,

Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

For both they and their sons have married with their daughters, and the holy seed is mixed with the strange people of the land; and from the beginning of this matter the rulers and the great men have been partakers of this iniquity.

Therefore now shall ye not join your daughters unto their sons, neither shall ye take their daughters unto your sons.

Of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.

Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

When thou hast gotten a fruitful possession through all the field, sow it with thine own seed, trusting in the goodness of thy stock.

For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.

Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.