Isaiah 31 1 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!
2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil,
and will not call back his words: but will arise against
the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them
that work iniquity.
3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God;
and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his
hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is
holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young
lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds
is called forth against him, he will not be afraid
of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them:
so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and
for the hill thereof.
5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend
Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and
passing over he will preserve it.
6 ¶ Turn ye unto him from whom the children
of Israel have deeply revolted.
7 For in that day every man shall cast away his
idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own
hands have made unto you for a sin.
8 ¶ Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword,
not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man,
shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and
his young men shall be discomfited.
9 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for
fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign,
saith the LORD,
whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in
Jerusalem.
Isaiah 32 1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and
princes shall rule in judgment.
2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the
wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water
in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary
land.
3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim,
and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
4 The heart also of the rash shall understand
knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be
ready to speak plainly.
5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal,
nor the churl said to be bountiful.
6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his
heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to
utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he
will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
7 The instruments also of the churl are
evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with
lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by
liberal things shall he stand.
9 ¶ Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my
voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye
careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering
shall not come.
11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled,
ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth
upon your loins.
12 They shall lament for the teats, for the
pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and
briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the
joyous city:
14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the
multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers
shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a
pasture of flocks;
15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high,
and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful
field be counted for a forest.
16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and
righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace;
and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance
for ever.
18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable
habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting
places;
19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest;
and the city shall be low in a low place.
20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all
waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox
and the ass.
Romans 2 1 Therefore thou art
inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest:
for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest
thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
2 But we are sure
that the judgment of God is according to truth against
them which commit such things.
3 And thinkest thou
this, O man, that judgest them which do such things,
and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment
of God?
4 Or despisest thou
the riches of his goodness and forbearance and
longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God
leadeth thee to repentance?
5 But after thy
hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself
wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the
righteous judgment of God;
6 Who will render
to every man according to his deeds:
7 To them who by
patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and
honour and immortality, eternal life:
8 But unto them
that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey
unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
9 Tribulation and
anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the
Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
10 But glory,
honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the
Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
11 For there is no
respect of persons with God.
12 For as many as
have sinned without law shall also perish without law:
and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by
the law;
13 (For not the
hearers of the law are just before God, but the
doers of the law shall be justified.
14 For when the
Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things
contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a
law unto themselves:
15 Which shew the
work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience
also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean
while accusing or else excusing one another;)
16 In the day when
God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ
according to my gospel.
17 Behold, thou art
called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy
boast of God,
18 And knowest his
will, and approvest the things that are more excellent,
being instructed out of the law;
19 And art
confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a
light of them which are in darkness,
20 An instructor of
the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of
knowledge and of the truth in the law.
21 Thou therefore
which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou
that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
22 Thou that sayest
a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit
adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit
sacrilege?
23 Thou that makest
thy boast of the law, through breaking the law
dishonourest thou God?
24 For the name of
God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it
is written.
25 For circumcision
verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a
breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made
uncircumcision.
26 Therefore if the
uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall
not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
27 And shall not
uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law,
judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost
transgress the law?
28 For he is not a
Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that
circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29 But he is
a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that
of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the
letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Romans 3 1 What advantage then
hath the Jew? or what profit is there of
circumcision?
2 Much every way:
chiefly, because that unto them were committed the
oracles of God.
3 For what if some
did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of
God without effect?
4 God forbid: yea,
let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written,
That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and
mightest overcome when thou art judged.
5 But if our
unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what
shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh
vengeance? (I speak as a man)
6 God forbid: for
then how shall God judge the world?
7 For if the truth
of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory;
why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
8 And not rather,
(as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that
we say,) Let us do evil that good may come? whose
damnation is just.
9 What then? are we
better than they? No, in no wise: for we have
before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all
under sin;
10 As it is
written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none
that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12 They are all
gone out of the way, they are together become
unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
13 Their throat is
an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used
deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is
full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet are
swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and
misery are in their ways:
17 And the way of
peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear
of God before their eyes.
19 Now we know that
what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who
are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and
all the world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the
deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his
sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
21 But now the
righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being
witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 Even the
righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus
Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there
is no difference:
23 For all have
sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24 Being justified
freely by his grace through the redemption that is in
Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God hath
set forth to be a propitiation through faith in
his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission
of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I
say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be
just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
27 Where is
boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works?
Nay: but by the law of faith.
28 Therefore we
conclude that a man is justified by faith without the
deeds of the law.
29 Is he the
God of the Jews only? is he not also of the
Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30 Seeing it is
one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith,
and uncircumcision through faith.
31 Do we then make
void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish
the law.
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