Hello, and Welcome
back to His Words are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer and today
we're going to continue reading
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in the book of James. But before
we read, let's pray together.
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Dear God, Thank you so
much for this time to come apart
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from all the different things
that are requiring our attention
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today. But before we turn to
those things we're coming into
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your presence to receive from
you instruction as to how we
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should face those things.
We want to have our faith
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strengthened. We want to have
our lives become more and more
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like yours. Our faith and
our works combining to show
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whose we are. Please guide
us now as we read these words.
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May they take root and
bear fruit to your glory.
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We love you. Amen.
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Like I said, we're
reading in the book of James.
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James has been writing
about the relationship,
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- beautiful relationship,
the interwoven relationship,
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between faith and works;
how we can't say that we have
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faith but live a life
that is apart from God.
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But through the very things
that we do, we show others who
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is our king, who is our Lord and
in whom we have placed our faith
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We're picking up
in chapter 4, verse 6.
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Wherefore he saith,
God resisteth the proud,
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but giveth
grace unto the humble.
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Submit yourselves therefore
to God. Resist the devil,
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and he will flee from you. Draw
nigh to God, and he will draw
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nigh to you. Cleanse your hands,
ye sinners; and purify your
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hearts, ye double-minded. Be
afflicted, and mourn, and weep:
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let your laughter be
turned to mourning, and your joy
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to heaviness. Humble yourselves
in the sight of the Lord,
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and he shall lift you up.
Speak not evil one of another,
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brethren. He that speaketh
evil of his brother, and judgeth
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his brother, speaketh evil
of the law, and judgeth the law:
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but if thou judge the law,
thou art not a doer of the law,
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but a judge. There is one
lawgiver, who is able to save
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and to destroy: who art
thou that judgest another?
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Go to now, ye that say, Today
or tomorrow we will go into
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such a city, and continue
there a year, and buy and sell,
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and get gain: Whereas ye know
not what shall be on the morrow.
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For what is your life? It
is even a vapor, that appeareth
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for a little time,
and then vanisheth away.
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For that ye ought to say, If
the Lord will, we shall live,
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and do this, or that. But now
ye rejoice in your boastings:
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all such rejoicing is evil.
Therefore to him that knoweth
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to do good, and doeth
it not, to him it is sin.
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Reading, continuing
in chapter five of James
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This is the King James
Version. Go to now, ye rich men,
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weep and howl for your miseries
that shall come upon you.
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Your riches are corrupted,
and your garments are motheaten.
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Your gold and silver is cankered
and the rust of them shall be
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a witness against you, and
shall eat your flesh as it were
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fire. Ye have heaped treasure
together for the last days.
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Behold, the hire of the laborers
who have reaped down your fields
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which is of you kept back
by fraud, crieth: and the cries
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of them which have reaped
are entered into the ears of the
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Lord of sabaoth. Ye have
lived in pleasure on the earth,
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and been wanton; ye
have nourished your hearts,
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as in a day of slaughter.
Ye have condemned and killed
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the just; and he doth not resist
you. Be patient therefore,
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brethren, unto the coming of
the Lord. Behold, the husbandman
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waiteth for the precious fruit
of the earth, and hath long
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patience for it, until he
receive the early and latter
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rain. Be ye also
patient; stablish your hearts:
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for the coming of
the Lord draweth nigh.
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Grudge not one against another,
brethren, lest ye be condemned:
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behold, the judge
standeth before the door.
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Take, my brethren, the prophets
who have spoken in the name of
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the Lord, for an
example of suffering affliction,
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and of patience. Behold, we
count them happy which endure.
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Ye have heard of the patience
of Job, and have seen the end
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of the Lord; that the Lord
is very pitiful, and of tender
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mercy. But above all things, my
brethren, swear not, neither by
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heaven, neither by the earth,
neither by any other oath:
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but let your yea be yea;
and your nay, nay; lest ye fall
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into condemnation. Is any among
you afflicted? let him pray.
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Is any merry? let him sing
psalms. Is any sick among you?
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let him call for the elders
of the church; and let them pray
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over him, anointing him with
oil in the name of the Lord:
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and the prayer of faith shall
save the sick, and the Lord
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shall raise him up; and
if he have committed sins,
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they shall be forgiven
him. Confess your faults one to
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another, and pray one for
another, that ye may be healed.
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The effectual, fervent prayer of
a righteous man availeth much.
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Elias was a man subject to
like passions as we are, and he
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prayed earnestly that it might
not rain: and it rained not
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on the earth by the space
of three years and six months.
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And he prayed again, and the
heaven gave rain, and the earth
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brought forth her fruit.
Brethren, if any of you do err
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from the truth, and one convert
him; let him know, that he which
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converteth the sinner from the
error of his way, shall save a
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soul from death, and
shall hide a multitude of sins.
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Continuing to read now
the first epistle of Peter,
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chapter one. This is
the King James Version.
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Peter, an apostle of
Jesus Christ, to the strangers
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scattered throughout Pontus,
Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and
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Bithynia, elect according
to the foreknowledge of God
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the Father, through
sanctification of the Spirit,
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unto obedience and sprinkling
of the blood of Jesus Christ:
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Grace unto you, and peace, be
multiplied. Blessed be the God
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and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, which according to his
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abundant mercy hath begotten
us again unto a lively hope
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by the resurrection of
Jesus Christ from the dead.
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To an inheritance incorruptible
and undefiled, and that fadeth
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not away, reserved in heaven for
you, who are kept by the power
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of God through faith unto
salvation ready to be revealed
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in the last time. Wherein
ye greatly rejoice, though now
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for a season, if need be,
ye are in heaviness through
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manifold temptations: That the
trial of your faith, being much
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more precious than of gold that
perisheth, though it be tried
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with fire, might be found
unto praise and honor and glory
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at the appearing of Jesus
Christ: Whom having not seen
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ye love; in whom, though now
ye see him not, yet believing,
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ye rejoice with joy unspeakable
and full of glory: Receiving the
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end of your faith, even
the salvation of your souls.
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Of which salvation the prophets
have inquired and searched
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diligently, who prophesied
of the grace that should come
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unto you: Searching what, or
what manner of time the Spirit
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of Christ which was in them
did signify when it testified
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beforehand the sufferings
of Christ, and the glory that
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should follow. Unto whom
it was revealed, that not unto
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themselves, but unto us they did
minister the things, which are
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now reported unto you by them
that have preached the gospel
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unto you with the Holy Ghost
sent down from heaven; which
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things the angels desire to
look into. Wherefore gird up
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the loins of your mind,
be sober, and hope to the end
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for the grace that is to
be brought unto you at the
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revelation of Jesus Christ; as
obedient children not fashioning
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yourselves according to the
former lusts in your ignorance:
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But as he which hath called
you is holy, so be ye holy
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in all manner of conversation;
because it is written,
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Be ye holy; for I am holy.
And if ye call on the Father,
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who without respect of persons
judgeth according to every man's
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pass the time of your sojourning
her in fear: Forasmuch as ye
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know that ye were not redeemed
with corruptible things,
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as silver and gold, from your
vain conversation received by
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tradition from your fathers;
But with the precious blood
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of Christ, as of a lamb without
blemish and without spot:
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Who verily was foreordained
before the foundation of the
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world, but was manifest
in these last times for you,
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who by him do believe in God,
that raised him up from the dead
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and gave him glory; that your
faith and hope might be in God.
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Seeing ye have purified
your souls in obeying the truth
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through the Spirit unto
unfeigned love of the brethren,
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see that ye love one another
with a pure heart fervently:
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Being born again, not
of corruptible seed, but of
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incorruptible, by the word
of God, which liveth and abideth
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for ever. For all flesh is as
grass, and all the glory of man
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as the flower of grass. The
grass withereth, and the flower
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thereof falleth away: But
the word of the Lord endureth
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for ever. And this is the word
which by the gospel is preached
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unto you.
Continuing now in Peter,
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chapter 2. - Wherefore laying
aside all malice, and all guile,
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and hypocrisies, and
envies, and all evil speaking,
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as newborn babes, desire
the sincere milk of the word,
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that ye may grow thereby: If so
be ye have tasted that the Lord
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is gracious. To whom
coming, as unto a living stone,
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disallowed indeed of men,
but chosen of God, and precious,
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ye also, as lively stones,
are built up a spiritual house,
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an holy priesthood, to
offer up spiritual sacrifices,
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acceptable to God by Jesus
Christ. Wherefore also it is
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contained in the
scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion
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a chief corner stone, elect,
precious: and he that believeth
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on him shall not be confounded.
Unto you therefore which believe
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he is precious: but unto them
which be disobedient, the stone
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which the builders disallowed,
the same is made the head of the
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corner, and a stone of
stumbling and a rock of offence,
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even to them which stumble
at the word, being disobedient:
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whereunto also they were
appointed. But ye are a chosen
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generation, a royal priesthood,
an holy nation, a peculiar
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people; that ye should
shew forth the praises of him,
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who hath called you out of
darkness into his marvellous
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light: Which in time past
were not a people, but are now
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the people of God: which had
not obtained mercy, but now have
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obtained mercy. Dearly beloved,
I beseech you as strangers
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and pilgrims, abstain from
fleshly lusts, which war against
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the soul; having
your conversation honest
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among the Gentiles: that,
whereas they speak against you
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as evildoers, they may by your
good works, which they shall
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behold, glorify God
in the day of visitation.
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Submit yourselves to
every ordinance of man for the
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Lord's sake: whether it
be to the king, as supreme;
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or unto governors, as unto them
that are sent by him for the
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punishment of evildoers,
and for the praise of them that
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do well. For so is the will
of God, that with well-doing
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ye may put to silence
the ignorance of foolish men:
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As free, and not using
your liberty for a cloak
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of maliciousness, but
as the servants of God.
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Honor all men. Love
the brotherhood. Fear God.
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Honor the king. Servants,
be subject to your masters
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with all fear; not only to
the good and gentle, but also to
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the froward. For this
is thankworthy, if a man
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for conscience toward
God endure grief, suffering
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wrongfully. For what glory
is it, if, when ye be buffeted
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for your faults, ye shall take
it patiently? but if, when ye do
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and suffer for it, ye take
it patiently, this is acceptable
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with God. - Thank you
for joining with me today
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May God keep you
until we're together again.
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