And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.

I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.

I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;

Wherefore, ye my sons, be valiant and shew yourselves men in the behalf of the law; for by it shall ye obtain glory.

Then Judas said, God forbid that I should do this thing, and flee away from them: if our time be come, let us die manfully for our brethren, and let us not stain our honour.

And he said unto me, Stand up manfully, and I will advise thee.

And the manifest signs that came from heaven unto those that behaved themselves manfully to their honour for Judaism: so that, being but a few, they overcame the whole country, and chased barbarous multitudes,

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

Marry thy daughter, and so shalt thou have performed a weighty matter: but give her to a man of understanding.

Blessed is the man that hath a virtuous wife, for the number of his days shall be double.

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

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

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

Beware of all whoredom, my son, and chiefly take a wife of the seed of thy fathers, and take not a strange woman to wife, which is not of thy father's tribe: for we are the children of the prophets, Noe, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: remember, my son, that our fathers from the beginning, even that they all married wives of their own kindred, and were blessed in their children, and their seed shall inherit the land.

And now, O Lord, I take not this my sister for lust but uprightly: therefore mercifully ordain that we may become aged together.

And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:

Behold, God himself is the judge, fear him: leave off from your sins, and forget your iniquities, to meddle no more with them for ever: so shall God lead you forth, and deliver you from all trouble.

My son, meddle not with many matters: for if thou meddle much, thou shalt not be innocent; and if thou follow after, thou shalt not obtain, neither shalt thou escape by fleeing.

He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

My son, fear thou the Lord and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:

He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.

Let thy mind be upon the ordinances of the Lord and meditate continually in his commandments: he shall establish thine heart, and give thee wisdom at thine owns desire.

But he that giveth his mind to the law of the most High, and is occupied in the meditation thereof, will seek out the wisdom of all the ancient, and be occupied in prophecies.

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.

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.

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.

And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord God.

And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.

And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the Lord, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.

Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,

Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.

And set aside the thoughts that are most heavy unto thee, and haste thee to flee from these times.

Take no heaviness to heart: drive it away, and remember the last end.

Their imagination of things to come, and the day of death, [trouble] their thoughts, and [cause] fear of heart;

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

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

For froward thoughts separate from God: and his power, when it is tried, reproves the unwise.

For the corruptible body presses down the soul, and the earthy tabernacle weighs down the mind that muses upon many things.

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.

And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

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.

But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.

Prosperity and adversity, life and death, poverty and riches, come of the Lord.

A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends: but a poor man being down is thrust away by his friends.

Riches are good unto him that hath no sin, and poverty is evil in the mouth of the ungodly.

Watching for riches consumeth the flesh, and the care thereof driveth away sleep.

Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

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

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.

The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.

And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.

For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;