8 Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. COL. iii. 4: When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. I THES. i. 10: And to wait for his Son from heaven. TIT. ii. 13: Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. HEB. ix. 28: Unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. 2 PET. iii. 12: Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God.

P1 THES. iii. 13. See on Rom. xvi. 25.

LUKE, i. 74, 75: That we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life. AcTs, xxiv. 16: Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men. 1 COR. Xv 58: Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. EPH. i. 4: According as he hath chosen us in him-that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. do. ii. 10: We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, do. v. 27: That he might present it to himself a glorious Church; not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. PHI. i. 6, 10: Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ. do. ii. 15: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke. COL. i. 21, 22: And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreprovable in his sight. 1 THES. iii. 13: To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints. do. iv. 7: God hath not called us to uncleanness, but unto holiness. do. v. 23: I pray God that your whole spirit and soul and body he preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 THES. ii. 13, 16, 17: God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God even our Father-comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work. 1 TIMavi. 14:

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[I charge thee] that thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. TIT. ii. 14: Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. 2 PET. iii. 14: Be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. 1 JOHN, iii. 20, 21: If our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.

ISA. xlix. 7: The LORD that is faithful. 1 COR. X. 13: God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able.. 2 Cor. i. 18: As God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. 1 THES. V. 24: Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. 2 THES. iii. 3: The Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil. HEB. X. 23: Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised.) do. xi. 11: Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed-because she judged him faithful who had promised, 1 JOHN, i. 9: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.

S JOHN, xiv. 23: If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. do. xv. 4: Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. do. xvii. 21: That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 1 COR. xii. 13: By one Spirit are we all baptized into one body. 1 JOHN, i. 3: Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. do. ii. 24 If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son and in the Father. do. iv. 13: Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. See on JOHN, xvii. 11.

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among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

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13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?

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▾ 1 COR. iii. 4: While one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal ?

ACTS, xviii. 24: A certain Jew named Apollos-an eloquent man, and mighty in the Scriptures. do. xix. 1: And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus and finding certain disciples. 1 COR. xvi. 12: As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come unto you with the brethren: but his will was not at all to come at this time; but he will come when he shall have convenient time.

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2 COR. xi. 4: For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another Gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. ЕPH. iv. 5: One Lord, one faith, one baptism.

2 ACTS, xviii. 8: Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house.

a ROM. xvi. 23: Gaius mine host, and of the whole Church, saluteth you. 3 JOHN, 1, &c: The elder unto the well beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth, &c.

b1 Cor. xvi. 15, 17: Ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints. I am glad of the coming of Stephanas.

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a1 COR. ii. 1, 4, 13: I brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom. My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 2 Cor. x. 10: His bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. do. xi. 6: Though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge. 2 PET. i. 16: Wę have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. See on Roм. xvi. 18.

*Acts, xvii. 18: Some [philosophers] said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection. 1 COR. ii. 14: But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 2 Cor. ii. 15: We are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish.

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* JOB, v. 12, 13: He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. ISA. xxix. 14: The wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. JER. viii. 9: The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken : lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?

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i JOB, xii. 17, 20, 24: He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools. He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged. He taketh away the heart of the chief people of the earth.

ROм. i. 19, 21, 28: That which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them. Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind. LUKE, X. 21. See on MAT. xi. 25. See on MAT. xii. 38.

m ISA. viii. 14: And ye shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. MAT. xi. 6: Blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me. do. xiii. 57: And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. LUKE, ii. 34: And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and raising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against. JOHN, vi. 60, 66: