How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

For gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

As gold in the furnace hath he tried them, and received them as a burnt offering.

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.

The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;

Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

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.

And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

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.

And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord:

Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:

But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

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

Accept no person against thy soul, and let not the reverence of any man cause thee to fall.

A man of understanding trusteth in the law; and the law is faithful unto him, as an oracle.

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord!

Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.

Never trust thine enemy: for like as iron rusteth, so is his wickedness.

An enemy speaketh sweetly with his lips, but in his heart he imagineth how to throw thee into a pit: he will weep with his eyes, but if he find opportunity, he will not be satisfied with blood.

He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.

Thou art near, O Lord; and all thy commandments are truth.

And twelve goats for the sin of all Israel, according to the number of the chief of the tribes of Israel.

And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the Lord came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:

If thou love to hear, thou shalt receive understanding: and if thou bow thine ear, thou shalt be wise,

He that hath small understanding, and feareth God, is better than one that hath much wisdom, and transgresseth the law of the most High.

He that keepeth the law of the Lord getteth the understanding thereof: and the perfection of the fear of the Lord is wisdom.

A man of understanding trusteth in the law; and the law is faithful unto him, as an oracle.

And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

And all that believed were together, and had all things common;

In three things I was beautified, and stood up beautiful both before God and men: the unity of brethren, the love of neighbours, a man and a wife that agree together.

Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

So the children of Israel which were present held the passover at that time, and the feast of sweet bread seven days.

Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.

And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.

Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the Lord empty:

Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.

Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)

Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.

Wherefore they said, Let us also get us a name, and go fight against the heathen that are round about us.

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:

Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.