Hi, and welcome back
to His Words Are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, and
today we're reading from the
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book of Titus.
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But before we start
let's pray together.
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Dear God, You have promised
us that Your word will be a lamp
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to our feet, will
be a light on our path.
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And we need that so desperately.
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We're surrounded by
people that would deceive us.
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We're surrounded by an
enemy that wants us walking in
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darkness, thinking
we're walking in the light.
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But we know that if we will
follow You; if we will hear Your
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word, You've promised to lead
us into all truth, and that Your
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word is truth.
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So please send Your Holy
Spirit right now to be with us,
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and to guide us, and to plant
these words deep in our lives.
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Thank you so much for loving us.
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We love you so much, too.
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Amen.
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Again, we're reading in the book
of Titus, chapter 2, starting
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with verse 9.
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And this is the
King James Version.
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Exhort servants to be
obedient unto their own masters,
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and to please them well in
all things; not answering again;
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not purloining, but showing
all good fidelity; that they may
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adorn the doctrine of
God our Savior in all things.
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For the grace of God that
bringeth salvation hath appeared
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to all men, teaching us that,
denying ungodliness and worldly
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lusts, we should live
soberly, righteously, and godly,
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in this present world;
looking for that blessed hope,
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and the glorious appearing
of the great God and our Savior
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Jesus Christ; who gave himself
for us, that he might redeem us
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from all iniquity, and purify
unto himself a peculiar people,
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zealous of good works.
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These things speak, and exhort,
and rebuke with all authority.
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Let no man despise thee.
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Put them in mind to be subject
to principalities and powers,
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to obey magistrates, to be ready
to every good work, to speak
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evil of no man, to be no
brawlers, but gentle, showing
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all meekness unto all men.
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For we ourselves also were
sometimes foolish, disobedient,
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deceived, serving divers lusts
and pleasures, living in malice
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and envy, hateful,
and hating one another.
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But after that the kindness and
love of God our Savior toward
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man appeared, not by works
of righteousness which we have
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done, but according to his mercy
he saved us, by the washing of
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regeneration, and renewing of
the Holy Ghost; which he shed on
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us abundantly through Jesus
Christ our Savior; that being
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justified by his grace, we
should be made heirs according
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to the hope of eternal life.
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This is a faithful saying, and
these things I will that thou
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affirm constantly, that
they which have believed in God
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might be careful to
maintain good works.
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These things are good
and profitable unto men.
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But avoid foolish questions, and
genealogies, and contentions,
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and strivings about the law; for
they are unprofitable and vain.
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A man that is an heretic, after
the first and second admonition,
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reject; knowing that he that is
such is subverted, and sinneth,
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being condemned of himself.
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When I shall send Artemas unto
thee, or Tychicus, be diligent
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to come unto me to
Nicopolis: for I have determined
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there to winter.
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Bring Zenas the lawyer
and Apollos on their journey
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diligently, that
nothing be wanting unto them.
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And let ours also
learn to maintain good works
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for necessary uses,
that they be not unfruitful.
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All that are
with me salute thee.
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Greet them that
love us in the faith.
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Grace be with you all.
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Amen.
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(Continuing now, the
epistle of Paul the Apostle,
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to Philemon.)
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Paul, a prisoner of Jesus
Christ, and Timothy our brother,
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unto Philemon our dearly
beloved, and fellow laborer,
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and to our beloved Apphia, and
Archippus our fellow soldier,
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and to the church in thy
house: grace to you, and peace,
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from God our Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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I thank my God, making mention
of thee always in my prayers,
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hearing of thy love and faith,
which thou hast toward the
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Lord Jesus, and toward all
saints; that the communication
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of thy faith may become
effectual by the acknowledging
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of every good thing which
is in you in Christ Jesus.
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For we have great joy
and consolation in thy love,
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because the bowels of the saints
are refreshed by thee, brother.
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Wherefore, though I might be
much bold in Christ to enjoin
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thee that which is convenient,
yet for love's sake I rather
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beseech thee being such an one
as Paul the aged, and now also
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a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
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I beseech thee for my son
Onesimus, whom I have begotten
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in my bonds: which in time
past was to thee unprofitable,
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but now profitable to thee and
to me: whom I have sent again:
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thou therefore receive him,
that is, mine own bowels: whom I
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would have retained with me,
that in thy stead he might have
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ministered unto me in the bonds
of the gospel: but without thy
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mind would I do nothing; that
thy benefit should not be as it
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were of
necessity, but willingly.
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For perhaps he
therefore departed for a season,
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that thou shouldest receive him
forever; not now as a servant,
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but above a servant, a brother
beloved, specially to me,
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but how much more unto
thee, both in the flesh,
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and in the Lord?
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If thou count me therefore a
partner, receive him as myself.
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If he hath wronged thee, or
oweth thee aught, put that on
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mine account; I Paul have
written it with mine own hand,
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I will repay it: albeit I do
not say to thee how thou owest
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unto me even
thine own self besides.
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Yea, brother, let me have joy
of thee in the Lord: refresh my
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bowels in the Lord.
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Having confidence in thy
obedience I wrote unto thee,
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knowing that thou wilt
also do more than I say.
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But withal prepare me also
a lodging: for I trust that
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through your prayers I
shall be given unto you.
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There salute thee Epaphras, my
fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus;
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Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas,
Lucas, my fellow-laborers.
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The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ be with your spirit.
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Amen.
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(Continuing now with the epistle
to the Hebrews, Chapter 1,
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and this is the
King James Version.)
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God, who at sundry times and
in divers manners spake in time
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past unto the fathers by
the prophets, hath in these last
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days spoken unto us by his Son,
whom he hath appointed heir of
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all things, by whom also he
made the worlds; who being the
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brightness of his glory, and
the express image of his person,
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and upholding all things by the
word of his power, when he had
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by himself purged our sins, sat
down on the right hand of the
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Majesty on high; being made
so much better than the angels,
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as he hath by inheritance
obtained a more excellent
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name than they.
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For unto which of the angels
said he at any time, Thou art my
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Son, this day
have I begotten thee?
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And again, I will be to
him a Father, and he shall be
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to me a Son?
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And again, when he bringeth
in the first-begotten into the
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world, he saith, And let all
the angels of God worship him.
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And of the angels he saith,
who maketh his angels spirits,
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and his
ministers a flame of fire.
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But unto the Son he saith,
Thy throne, O God, is for ever
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and ever: a scepter of
righteousness is the scepter
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of thy kingdom.
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Thou hast loved righteousness,
and hated iniquity; therefore
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God, even thy God, hath anointed
thee with the oil of gladness
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above thy fellows.
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And, Thou, Lord, in
the beginning hast laid the
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foundation of the earth;
and the heavens are the works
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of thine hands: they shall
perish, but thou remainest:
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and they all shall wax old as
doth a garment; and as a vesture
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shalt thou fold them up,
and they shall be changed:
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but thou art the same,
and thy years shall not fail.
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But to which of the angels said
he at any time, Sit on my right
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hand, until I make
thine enemies thy footstool?
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Are they not all ministering
spirits, sent forth to minister
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for them who shall
be heirs of salvation?
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(We're reading from the book
of Hebrews, in the King James
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Version, Chapter 2.)
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Therefore we ought to give the
more earnest heed to the things
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which we have heard, lest at any
time we should let them slip.
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For if the word spoken by
angels was steadfast, and every
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transgression and disobedience
received a just recompense of
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reward; how shall we escape, if
we neglect so great salvation;
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which at the first began to
be spoken by the Lord, and was
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confirmed unto us by them that
heard him; God also bearing them
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witness, both with signs
and wonders, and with divers
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miracles, and
gifts of the Holy Ghost,
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according to his own will?
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For unto the angels hath he not
put in subjection the world to
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come, whereof we speak.
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But one in a certain place
testified, saying, What is man,
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that thou art mindful
of him? or the son of man,
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that thou visitest him?
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Thou madest him a little lower
than the angels; thou crownedst
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him with glory and honor, and
didst set him over the works of
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thy hands: thou hast
put all things in subjection
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under his feet.
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For in that he put all in
subjection under him, he left
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nothing that is
not put under him.
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But now we see not yet
all things put under him.
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But we see Jesus, who was made
a little lower than the angels
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for the suffering of death,
crowned with glory and honor;
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that he by the grace
of God should taste death
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for every man.
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For it became him, for whom are
all things, and by whom are all
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things, in bringing many sons
unto glory, to make the captain
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of their salvation
perfect through sufferings.
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For both he that sanctifieth and
they who are sanctified are all
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of one: for which
cause he is not ashamed to
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call them brethren, saying,
I will declare thy name unto my
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brethren, in the midst
of the church will I sing
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praise unto thee.
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And again, I will
put my trust in him.
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And again, Behold I
and the children which God
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hath given me.
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Forasmuch then as the children
are partakers of flesh and
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blood, he also himself
likewise took part of the same;
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that through death he might
destroy him that had the power
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of death, that is, the devil;
and deliver them who through
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fear of death were all their
lifetime subject to bondage.
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For verily he took not
on him the nature of angels;
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but he took on him
the seed of Abraham.
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Wherefore in all things it
behooved him to be made like
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unto his brethren, that he
might be a merciful and faithful
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high priest in things pertaining
to God, to make reconciliation
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for the sins of the people.
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For in that he himself
hath suffered being tempted,
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he is able to succor
them that are tempted.
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Wherefore, holy brethren,
partakers of the heavenly
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calling, consider the
Apostle and High Priest of our
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profession, Christ Jesus;
who was faithful to him that
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appointed him, as also Moses
was faithful in all his house.
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For this man was counted
worthy of more glory than Moses,
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inasmuch as he who hath builded
the house hath more honor
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than the house.
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For every house is builded
by some man; but he that built
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all things is God.
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And Moses verily was faithful
in all his house, as a servant,
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for a testimony of those things
which were to be spoken after;
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but Christ as a son over his
own house; whose house are we,
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if we hold fast the confidence
and the rejoicing of the hope
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firm unto the end.
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Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost
saith, Today if ye will hear his
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voice, harden not your
hearts, as in the provocation,
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in the day of temptation in the
wilderness: when your fathers
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tempted me, proved me,
and saw my works forty years.
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Wherefore I was grieved
with that generation, and said,
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They do always err in
their hearts; and they have not
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known my ways.
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Please join again with me next
time to read the word of God.
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