My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.

Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?

And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.

And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.

And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;

And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

Now therefore set thine house in order, and reprove thy people, comfort such of them as be in trouble, and now renounce corruption,

And so comforting them out of the law and the prophets, and withal putting them in mind of the battles that they won afore, he made them more cheerful.

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

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.

This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.

Answer not before thou hast heard the cause: neither interrupt men in the midst of their talk.

Admonish thy neighbour before thou threaten him; and not being angry, give place to the law of the most High.

If thou blow the spark, it shall burn: if thou spit upon it, it shall be quenched: and both these come out of thy mouth.

Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.

A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another:

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

And ye shall say, To the Lord our God belongs righteousness, but unto us the confusion of faces, as it is come to pass this day, unto them of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.

Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

Many have sinned for a small matter; and he that seeketh for abundance will turn his eyes away.

A very little is sufficient for a man well nurtured, and he fetcheth not his wind short upon his bed.

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Be willing to hear every godly discourse; and let not the parables of understanding escape thee.

Let thy talk be with the wise, and all thy communication in the law of the most High.

The discourse of a godly man is always with wisdom; but a fool changeth as the moon.

And weigh thy words in a balance, and make a door and bar for thy mouth.

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words; be as one that knoweth and yet holdeth his tongue.

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.

For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.

Now therefore set thine house in order, and reprove thy people, comfort such of them as be in trouble, and now renounce corruption,

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

As his mercy is great, so is his correction also: he judgeth a man according to his works

How good is it, when thou art reproved, to shew repentance! for so shalt thou escape wilful sin.

He that hateth to be reproved is in the way of sinners: but he that feareth the Lord will repent from his heart.

A sinful man will not be reproved, but findeth an excuse according to his will.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

O Lord, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.

Open rebuke is better than secret love.

He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.

And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

Woe be unto them that are bound with their sins, and covered with their iniquities like as a field is covered over with bushes, and the path thereof covered with thorns, that no man may travel through!

None of their unrighteous deeds are hid from him, but all their sins are before the Lord

Such a man only feareth the eyes of men, and knoweth not that the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the sun, beholding all the ways of men, and considering the most secret parts.

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:

He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

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

Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.

Why is earth and ashes proud? There is not a more wicked thing than a covetous man: for such an one setteth his own soul to sale; because while he liveth he casteth away his bowels.

For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.