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of nature; and it is set on fire ousness is sown in peace of of hell. them that make peace.

7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed, of mankind :

CHAPTER IV.

Our evil lusts cause contention : 7 how

we may overcome them, and gain God's favour.

FR

ROM whence come wars 8 But the tongue can no and fightings among you! man tame; it is an unruly evil, come they not hence, even of full of deadly poison. your lusts that war in your

9 Therewith bless we God, members? even the Father; and there- 2 Ye lust and have not: ye with curse we men, which are kill, and desire to have, and made after the similitude of cannot obtain: ye fight and God. war, yet ye have not, because

10 Out of the same mouth ye ask not. proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 11 Doth a fountain send forth 4 Ye adulterers and adulterat the same place sweet water esses, know ye not that the and bitter? friendship of the world is enmity 12 Can the fig-tree, my breth- with God? whosoever therefore ren, bear olive-berries? either a will be a friend of the world is vine, figs so can no fountain the enemy of God.

both yield salt water and fresh. 5 Do ye think that the scrip

13 Who is a wise man and ture saith in vain, The spirit endued with knowledge among that dwelleth in us lusteth to you? let him shew out of a good envy? conversation his works with 6 But he giveth more grace. meekness of wisdom. Wherefore he saith, God resist14 But if ye have bitter en- eth the proud, but giveth grace vying and strife in your hearts, unto the humble.

glory not, and lie not against 7 Submit yourselves therefore the truth. to God. Resist the devil, and 15 This wisdom descendeth he will flee from you. not from above, but is earthly, 8 Draw nigh to God, and he sensual, devilish. will draw nigh to you. Cleanse 16 For where envying and your hands, ye sinners, and pustrife is, there is confusion and rify your hearts, ye double-minevery evil work. ded.

17 But the wisdom that is 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, from above is first pure, then and weep: let your laughter be peaceable, gentle, and easy to turned to mourning, and your be entreated, full of mercy and joy to heaviness. good fruits, without patiality, and without hypocrisy.

10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall

18 And the fruit of righte-lift you up.

11 Speak not evil one of an-bourers who have reaped down other, brethren. He that speak-your fields, which is of you kept eth evil of his brother, and judg- back by fraud, crieth; and the eth his brother, speaketh evil of cries of them which have reapthe law, and judgeth the lawed are entered into the ears of but if thou judge the law, thou the Lord of Sabaoth. art not a doer of the law, but a 5 Ye have lived in pleasure judge. on the earth, and been wanton; 12 There is one lawgiver, ye have nourished your hearts, who is able to save, and to de- as in a day of slaughter. stroy who art thou that judgest another?

6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

13 Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go 7 Be patient therefore, brethinto such a city, and continue ren, unto the coming of the there a year, and buy, and sell, Lord. Behold, the husbandman and get gain: waiteth for the precious fruits 14 Whereas ye know not of the earth, and hath long pawhat shall be on the morrow. tience for it, until he receive the For what is your life? It is even early and latter rain.

a vapour, that appeareth for a lit- 8 Be ye also patient; estabtle time,and then vanisheth away. lish your hearts: for the coming 15 For that ye ought to say, of the Lord draweth nigh. If the Lord will, we shall live, 9 Grudge not one against and do this, or that. another, brethren, lest ye be 16 But now ye rejoice in condemned: behold the Judge your boastings: all such rejoic-standeth before the door. ing is evil. 10 Take, my brethren, the 17 Therefore to him that prophets, who have spoken in knoweth to do good, and doeth the name of the Lord, for an it not, to him it is sin. example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

CHAP. V.

11 Behold, we count them

1 Wicked rich men warned of God's judgments....7 Of patience.....13 To pray in ad- happy which endure. Ye have versity. heard of the patience of Job, 10 to now, ye rich men, weep and have seen the end of the and howl for your miseries Lord; that the Lord is very that shall come upon you. pitiful, and of tender mercy. 2 Your riches are corrupted, 12 But above all things, my and your garments are moth-brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth,

eaten.

3 Your gold and silver is neither by any other oath: but cankered; and the rust of them let your yea, be yea; and your shall be a witness against you, nay, nay; lest ye fall into conand shall eat your flesh as it demnation.

were fire. Ye have heaped trea- 13 Is any among you afflictsure together for the last days. ed? let him pray. Is any merry? 4 Behold, the hire of the la- let him sing psalms.

14 Is any sick among you? to like passions as we are, and let him call for the elders of the he prayed earnestly that it might church; and let them pray over not rain: and it rained not on him, anointing him with oil in the earth by the space of three the name of the Lord: years and six months.

15 And the prayer of faith|| 18 And he prayed again, and shall save the sick, and the the heaven gave rain, and the Lord shall raise him up; and earth brought forth her fruit. if he have committed sins, they 19 Brethren, if any of you do shall be forgiven him. err from the truth, and one con

16 Confess your faults one to vert him; another, and pray one for anoth- 20 Let him know, that he er, that ye may be healed. The which converteth the sinner from effectual fervent prayer of a the error of his way shall save righteous man availeth much. a soul from death, and shall 17 Elias was a man subject hide a multitude of sins.

1 The First Epistle general of PETER.

CHAP. I.

1 The apostle's address: 3 he blesseth God for their hope of a blessed immortality: 10

he sheweth that their salvation in Christ had been foretold by the prophets of old, &c.

5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.

6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, PETER, an apostle of Jesus though now for a season (if Christ, to the strangers scat- need be) ye are in heaviness tered throughout Pontus, Gala- through manifold temptations: tia, Cappadocia,Asia,and Bithy- 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than

nia,

2 Elect according to the fore- of gold that perisheth, though it knowledge of God the Father, be tried with fire, might be found through sanctification of the unto praise, and honour, and gloSpirit, unto obedience and ry, at the appearing of Jesus sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Christ: Grace unto you, and 8 Whom having not seen, ye peace, be multiplied. love; in whom, though now ye 3 Blessed be the God and see him not, yet believing, ye reFather of our Lord Jesus Christ, joice with joy unspeakable, and which, according to his abund- full of glory:

ant mercy, hath begotten us 9 Receiving the end of your again unto a lively hope by the faith, even the salvation of your resurrection of Jesus Christ from souls.

the dead,

10 of which salvation the 4 To an inheritance incorrup- prophets have inquired and tible, and undefiled, and that fad- searched diligently, who propheeth not away, reserved in heaven sied of the grace that should come for you. unto you:

11 Searching what, or what 21 Who by him, do believe in manner of time the Spirit of God, that raised him up from Christ which was in them did the dead, and gave him glory; signify, when it testified before- that your faith and hope might hand the sufferings of Christ, be in God.

and the glory that should follow. 22 Seeing ye have purified 12 Unto whom it was reveal- your souls in obeying the truth ed, that not unto themselves, but through the Spirit unto unfeignunto us they did minister the ed love of the brethren, see that things which are now reported ye love one another with a pure unto you by them that have heart fervently:

preached the gospel unto you, 23 Being born again, not of with the Holy Ghost sent down corruptible seed, but of incorfrom heaven; which things the ruptible, by the word of God, angels desire to look into. which liveth and abideth for

13 Wherefore gird up the ever. loins of your mind, be sober, and 24 For all flesh is as grass, hope to the end for the grace that and all the glory of man as the is to be brought unto you at the flower of grass. The grass withrevelation of Jesus Christ: ereth, and the flower thereof 14 As obedient children, not falleth away: fashioning yourselves according 25 But the word of the Lord to the former lusts in your igno- endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is 15 But as he which hath preached unto you. called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 1 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

rance:

17 And if ye call on the

CHAP. II.

He inciteth them against uncharitableness; 4 he sheweth their privileges through Christ the chief corner-stone: 11 he beseecheth them to abstain from fleshly lusts,

&c.

Father, who without respect of WHEREFORE, laying persons judgeth according to ev

and all

ery man's work, pass the time of guile, and hypocrisies, and enyour sojourning here in fear: vies, and all evil speaking,

18 Forasmuch as ye know 2 As new-born babes, desire that ye were not redeemed with the sincere milk of the word,that corruptible things, as silver and ye may grow thereby: gold, from your vain conversa- 3 If so be ye have tasted that tion received by tradition from the Lord is gracious: your fathers; 4 To whom coming as unto 19 But with the precious a living stone, disallowed indeed blood of Christ, as of a lamb of men, but chosen of God, and without blemish and without precious,

spot:

5 Ye also, as lively stones, are 20 Who verily was fore-or- built up a spiritual house, a holy dained before the foundation of priesthood, to offer up spiritual the world, but was manifest in sacrifices, acceptable to God by these last times for you, Jesus Christ.

6 Wherefore also it is con- for the praise of them that do tained in the scripture, Behold, well.

I lay in Sion a chief corner- 15 For so is the will of God, stone, elect, precious: and he that with well-doing ye may put that believeth on him shall not to silence the ignorance of foolbe confounded. ish men:

7 Unto you therefore which 16 As free, and not using believe, he is precious: but unto your liberty for a cloak of mathem which be disobedient, the liciousness, but as the servants stone which the builders disal- of God.

lowed, the same is made the 17 Honour all men. Love the head of the corner, brotherhood. Fear God. Honour

8 And a stone of stumbling, the king. and a rock of offence, even to 18 Servants, be subject to them which stumble at the word, your masters with all fear; not being disobedient: whereunto only to the good and gentle, but also they were appointed. also to the froward.

9 But ye are a chosen gen- 19 For this is thank-worthy, eration, a royal priesthood, a if a man for conscience toward holy nation, a peculiar people; God endure grief, suffering that ye should shew forth the wrongfully. praises of him who hath called 20 For what glory is it, if, you out of darkness into his when ye be buffeted for your marvellous light: faults, ye shall take it patiently? 10 Which in time past were but if, when ye do well, and, not a people, but are now the suffer for it, ye take it patiently, people of God: which had not this is acceptable with God. obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also 11 Dearly beloved, I beseech suffered for us, leaving us an exyou, as strangers and pilgrims, ample, that ye should follow his abstain from fleshly lusts, which steps: war against the soul;

22 Who did no sin, newas guile found in his

12 Having your conversation ther honest among the Gentiles: that, mouth: whereas they speak against you 23 Who, when he was revilas evil-doers, they may by your ed, reviled not again; when he good works, which they shall suffered, he threatened not; but behold, glorify God in the day committed himself to him that of visitation.

13 Submit yourselves every ordinance of man for Lord's sake: whether it be the king, as supreme;

judgeth righteously:

to 24 Who his own self bare our the sins in his own body on the tree, to that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: 14 Or unto governors, as un- by whose stripes ye were healed. to them that are sent by him for 25 For ye were as sheep the punishment of evil-doers, and going astray; but are now