item: #1 of 418 id: 10326 author: Kingsley, Charles title: David: Five Sermons date: None words: 15283 flesch: 74 summary: Every form of human sorrow, doubt, struggle, error, sin; the nun agonising in the cloister; the settler struggling for his life in Transatlantic forests; the pauper shivering over the embers in his hovel, and waiting for kind death; the man of business striving to keep his honour pure amid the temptations of commerce; the prodigal son starving in the far country, and recollecting the words which he learnt long ago at his mother's knee; the peasant boy trudging a- field in the chill dawn, and remembering that the Lord is his shepherd, therefore he will not want--all shapes of humanity have found, and will find to the end of time, a word said to their inmost hearts, and more, a word said for those hearts to the living God of heaven, by the vast humanity of David, the man after God's own heart; the most thoroughly human figure, as it seems to me, which had appeared upon the earth before the coming of that perfect Son of man, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Better would it be for any one of you to be the stupidest and the ugliest of mortals, to be the most diseased and abject of cripples, the most silly, nervous incapable personage who ever was a laughingstock for the boys upon the streets, if only you lived, according to your powers, the life of the Spirit of God; than to be as perfectly gifted, as exquisitely organised in body and mind as David himself, and not to live the life of the Spirit of God, the life of goodness, which is the only life fit for a human being wearing the human flesh and soul which Christ took upon him on earth, and wears for ever in heaven, a Man indeed in the midst of the throne of God. keywords: character; david; god; good; jonathan; life; lord; love; man; men; right; sin; soul; spirit; words; world cache: 10326.txt plain text: 10326.txt item: #2 of 418 id: 10380 author: Wells, Philip P. (Philip Patterson) title: Bible Stories and Religious Classics date: None words: 166726 flesch: 80 summary: Of whom Reuben said: Said not I to you, in no wise sin not ye in the child, and ye would not hear me? Tobias said: Lord God of our fathers, heaven and earth, sea, wells, and floods, and all creatures that be in them, bless thee. keywords: abraham; angel; anon; beasts; blessed; boy; brethren; brother; children; christian; city; come; david; day; days; dead; death; earth; egypt; eyes; face; fair; father; god; good; great; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; holy; home; house; israel; jacob; joseph; king; know; land; left; life; like; lord; lord god; love; man; men; moses; mother; night; people; peter; pharaoh; place; saul; saying; servants; set; son; sons; soul; stone; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; tofore; unto; water; way; wife; woman; words; world; years cache: 10380.txt plain text: 10380.txt item: #3 of 418 id: 11241 author: Anonymous title: Wee Ones' Bible Stories date: None words: 6888 flesch: 75 summary: These men were skillful in building, else they never could have gone as far as they did in their stupendous work, and God was willing that they should exercise their skill, as He is willing that people shall do now; but when they thought themselves equal to Him, they learned how weak they really were in comparison. From that time Paul preached and taught the Christian religion, and converted many people to it. keywords: disciples; god; jesus; moses; naomi; people; time cache: 11241.txt plain text: 11241.txt item: #4 of 418 id: 11268 author: Anonymous title: The Flood date: None words: 3502 flesch: 91 summary: It hung in heaven, upheld by God, And arch'd the distant gloom, And bent on either side to earth, In bright and graceful form. God is provoked III. keywords: ark; earth; flood; god; noah cache: 11268.txt plain text: 11268.txt item: #5 of 418 id: 11580 author: Jackson, George title: The Teaching of Jesus date: None words: 55480 flesch: 78 summary: The duty itself no man can escape who calls Christ Jesus Lord and Master. As touching the gospel which was preached by me, he says, neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ. keywords: christ; church; day; death; disciples; father; footnote; god; good; heart; heaven; holy; jesus; jesus christ; judgment; kingdom; life; lord; love; man; men; place; prayer; right; sin; son; spirit; teaching; testament; thee; things; thou; thy; time; truth; words; work; world cache: 11580.txt plain text: 11580.txt item: #6 of 418 id: 12076 author: None title: The Story of the Prophet Jonas date: None words: 1392 flesch: 86 summary: Wherefore Jonas was sore discontent and angry. Wherefore they cried unto the lord and said: O lord let us not perish for this mans death, neither lay innocent blood unto our charge: for thou lord even as thy pleasure was, so thou hast done. keywords: jonas; lord cache: 12076.txt plain text: 12076.txt item: #7 of 418 id: 12188 author: Miles, Anna Marie title: The Key to Peace date: None words: 12914 flesch: 90 summary: Sin separates us from God. Sin was finished and I was cut off from God. keywords: bible; devil; god; heart; jesus; life; lord; peace; right; sin; word cache: 12188.txt plain text: 12188.txt item: #8 of 418 id: 12282 author: Newton, Richard Heber title: The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible date: None words: 59706 flesch: 69 summary: The religion of the people appears to have been then a commingling of fetichism, the worship of things that impressed the imagination, great trees and huge boulders, with the worship of the various powers of nature, the orbs of heaven, the reproductive force of the earth, etc., under the usual savage and sensual symbolisms. From such unpromising beginnings, through the successive stages of polytheistic idolatries, religion was gradually led up, in the advance of the general life of the people and through the inspirations of a series of great men, to the recognition of One Eternal and infinite Being; the Lord of nature and of man, the Father of all mankind, Holy, Just and Gracious; whose truest worship is the aspirations of his children after goodness. A singular succession of great men arise to save and revive and reform religion in every critical epoch. keywords: age; bible; book; christ; church; day; divine; earth; find; form; god; growth; history; holy; human; ideal; israel; knowledge; law; life; light; literature; lord; love; man; men; mind; moral; nation; nature; new; order; people; period; power; prophets; read; religion; soul; spirit; testament; thought; thy; time; use; words; work; world; worship; writings cache: 12282.txt plain text: 12282.txt item: #9 of 418 id: 12434 author: Kent, Charles Foster title: Twelve Studies on the Making of a Nation: The Beginnings of Israel's History date: None words: 43380 flesch: 70 summary: 16:7. With many men the strongest motive is the desire to surpass others. For many men that which arouses their ambitions is the call of a great opportunity or responsibility. keywords: abraham; bible; character; day; different; egypt; flood; god; hebrews; history; individual; israel; jacob; jehovah; joseph; land; law; laws; life; man; men; moses; nation; new; palestine; people; power; right; sense; sin; society; state; stories; story; study; way; wilderness; work; world; wrong cache: 12434.txt plain text: 12434.txt item: #10 of 418 id: 12615 author: Knight, William Allen title: The Song of our Syrian Guest date: None words: 4938 flesch: 84 summary: Up in the mountainsides of Lebanon, where my kinsmen have long been shepherds, often there are no regular drinking-places, such as the wells and fountains on the plains. Of nothing do you hear shepherds boasting more proudly than of their achievements in this part of their care of flocks. keywords: care; day; life; psalm; sheep; shepherd; world cache: 12615.txt plain text: 12615.txt item: #11 of 418 id: 13166 author: Watts, Isaac title: The Psalms of David Imitated in the Language of the New Testament and Applied to the Christian State and Worship date: None words: 65415 flesch: 92 summary: 3 I pay this evening sacrifice; And when my work is done, Great God, my faith and hope relies Upon thy grace alone. And yet our foes deride, That we should make thy name our trust; Great God, confound their pride. keywords: christ; day; death; earth; eyes; fear; glory; god; grace; great; hand; heart; heavenly; hope; king; life; lord; love; man; men; power; praise; psalm; rest; rise; saints; sing; sinners; soul; thee; thine; thou; throne; thy; thy god; truth; vain; ver; word; works cache: 13166.txt plain text: 13166.txt item: #12 of 418 id: 13229 author: Smith, F. G. (Frederick George) title: The Revelation Explained An Exposition, Text by Text, of the Apocalypse of St. John date: None words: 125810 flesch: 68 summary: Among the blasphemous titles assumed are these: Lord God the Pope, King of the World, Holy Father, King of kings, and Lord of lords, Vicegerent of the Son of God. When we come to consider chapter XIII, we shall see that the Papacy is described as a beast reigning for forty-two months, or twelve hundred and sixty years, after which time another beast possessing great power and authority appears on the scene. keywords: angel; authority; babylon; beast; blood; book; chapter; character; christ; christianity; church; churches; city; day; death; description; dragon; earth; empire; end; events; fact; fire; god; great; hand; heaven; history; holy; human; jesus; john; kings; lamb; life; light; lord; lord god; man; men; nations; nature; new; number; people; period; place; power; roman; rome; saints; sea; second; spirit; symbol; temple; things; thou; throne; time; truth; verses; vision; voice; work; world; worship; years cache: 13229.txt plain text: 13229.txt item: #13 of 418 id: 13267 author: Ainsworth, Percy C. (Percy Clough) title: The Threshold Grace: Meditations in the Psalms date: None words: 15604 flesch: 86 summary: That is a picture of life. Life is spent in crossing this threshold-line, going out to the many and coming in to the few, going out to answer the call of labour and coming in to take the right to rest. keywords: day; experience; faith; god; heart; life; lord; man; men; need; prayer; song; soul; things; world cache: 13267.txt plain text: 13267.txt item: #14 of 418 id: 13341 author: Watts, Isaac title: Hymns and Spiritual Songs date: None words: 61334 flesch: 90 summary: 12 Send comforts down from thy right-hand, While we pass thro' this barren land, And in thy temple let us see A glimpse of love, a glimpse of thee.] Hymn 2:17 God's eternity. 1 Rise, rise, my soul, and leave the ground, Stretch all thy thoughts abroad, And rouse up every tuneful sound To praise th' eternal God. How shall I praise th' eternal God, That infinite unknown? keywords: blood; christ; come; death; earth; eternal; eyes; faith; father; glory; god; grace; great; heart; heaven; heavenly; hell; high; hymn; jesus; joys; king; life; lord; love; power; praise; saints; sin; son; soul; spirit; thee; thine; throne; thy; vain; word cache: 13341.txt plain text: 13341.txt item: #15 of 418 id: 13353 author: Smith, George Adam title: Four Psalms XXIII. XXXVI. LII. CXXI. Interpreted for practical use date: None words: 15250 flesch: 79 summary: Meantime, outside the darkened windows of his selfishness, the mercy of God, in which other men gloried and grew strong, rose every day. Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself. keywords: day; evil; eyes; faith; god; heart; help; hills; life; lord; love; man; men; psalm; psalmist; shepherd; sin; things cache: 13353.txt plain text: 13353.txt item: #16 of 418 id: 13601 author: Maclaren, Alexander title: Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) date: None words: 254293 flesch: 72 summary: Only remember that in Christ God dwelt completely, all 'the fulness of the Godhead bodily' was there, but in us it is but partially; that in Christ, therefore, the divine indwelling was uniform and invariable, but in us it fluctuates, and sometimes is more intimate and blessed, and sometimes He leaves the habitation when we leave Him; that in Christ, therefore, there was no progress in the divine indwelling, but that in us, if there be any true inhabitation of our souls by God, that abiding will become more and more, until every corner of our being is hallowed and filled with the searching effulgence of the all-pervasive Light. I take then, just these two thoughts, God beseeching man, and man refusing God. keywords: apostle; body; brethren; character; christian; christianity; church; condition; day; dead; death; divine; duty; end; evil; experience; fact; faith; father; flesh; form; future; gift; glory; god; good; gospel; grace; great; hand; heart; heaven; hope; human; jesus christ; joy; know; law; life; light; lives; living; look; lord; lord jesus; love; man; means; men; mind; moment; nature; need; new; order; paul; peace; people; point; power; present; purpose; question; regard; resurrection; sacrifice; salvation; self; sense; set; sin; sins; son; soul; spirit; teaching; text; things; thought; time; truth; use; way; words; work; world cache: 13601.txt plain text: 13601.txt item: #17 of 418 id: 13860 author: Rowland, Alfred title: Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters date: None words: 53340 flesch: 74 summary: It may not be the same order of inspiration by which _men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Ghost_; _Searching what time or manner of time the spirit of Christ which was in them did point unto when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that should follow them_ (2 Peter i. 21; 1 Peter i. 11); but the fact is clear, whether it was inspiration of a different nature or in a different degree, that on men of special gifts in various departments and of the highest order, wisdom and understanding are a direct gift of the Holy Spirit. We all revere and follow great men, or those whom we deem great, which is not quite the same thing. keywords: character; child; christ; christian; church; david; day; death; divine; evil; faith; father; god; good; hand; heart; home; human; jesus; king; kingdom; life; little; lord; love; man; men; mother; people; pilate; power; prayer; right; sin; son; spirit; story; things; thought; time; truth; way; work; world; years cache: 13860.txt plain text: 13860.txt item: #18 of 418 id: 14485 author: Steele, David title: Notes on the Apocalypse date: None words: 101987 flesch: 72 summary: (Ps. ii. 2, 8.) (Ps. lxv. keywords: angel; antichrist; beast; book; chapter; christ; church; death; dragon; earth; empire; father; glory; god; hath; heaven; holy; jesus; john; lamb; life; lord; man; men; nations; people; place; power; roman; saints; sea; second; seventh; spirit; things; thou; throne; time; trumpets; voice; witnesses; world; years cache: 14485.txt plain text: 14485.txt item: #19 of 418 id: 14643 author: Willard, J. H. (James Hartwell) title: The Farmer Boy: The Story of Jacob date: None words: 4020 flesch: 79 summary: His way to Bethel lay through a hostile country, but God protected him as He had promised; and at last Jacob reached the pillar which he had set up, and there he built the altar and worshipped God. Jacob's mother had died during his long absence from home and now her old nurse, Deborah, died, so in memory of the great love mother and son had for each other he buried Rebekah's faithful servant under an oak-tree and called it the oak of tears. keywords: esau; father; isaac; jacob; joseph cache: 14643.txt plain text: 14643.txt item: #20 of 418 id: 15185 author: Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey) title: Quiet Talks on John's Gospel date: None words: 62779 flesch: 87 summary: But it's Jesus men need. There's a _Man_ on the throne yonder, bone of our bone, heart of our heart, pain of our pain. keywords: action; believe; bit; blood; book; come; coming; crowd; day; door; eyes; face; faith; father; god; good; gospel; hand; heart; human; jesus; john; life; light; love; man; men; mother; new; power; presence; simple; son; spirit; story; talk; thing; time; touch; way; wooing; word cache: 15185.txt plain text: 15185.txt item: #21 of 418 id: 1549 author: Luther, Martin title: Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians date: None words: 86359 flesch: 83 summary: He preached, not a gospel of his own invention, but the very same Gospel God had long ago prescribed in the Sacred Scriptures. Without Christ men will entertain false ideas about God, call their ideas what you like, the laws of Moses, the ordinances of the Pope, the Koran of the Mohammedans, or what have you. VERSE 9. keywords: abraham; apostles; christ; christian; church; conscience; death; doctrine; faith; flesh; galatians; god; good; gospel; grace; holy; jesus christ; law; life; lord; love; man; men; paul; people; person; righteousness; shall; sin; sins; spirit; things; verse; works; world cache: 1549.txt plain text: 1549.txt item: #22 of 418 id: 15771 author: Tidwell, Josiah Blake title: The Bible Period by Period A Manual for the Study of the Bible by Periods date: None words: 45858 flesch: 77 summary: Many people did no doubt turn in truth to God. The author believes that the Bible is the word of God and that it is the inspired revelation of God's will to men and of the plan which he has provided for their redemption. keywords: abraham; bible; book; chapter; chs; death; discussion; egypt; events; following; god; history; israel; jehovah; jerusalem; jesus; john; king; kingdom; law; lessons; life; man; moses; nations; people; period; power; prophets; reign; story; study; temple; time; work; worship; years cache: 15771.txt plain text: 15771.txt item: #23 of 418 id: 15812 author: Wishard, S. E. (Samuel Ellis) title: The Testimony of the Bible Concerning the Assumptions of Destructive Criticism date: None words: 20486 flesch: 80 summary: In every one of the twenty-seven chapters of the book of Leviticus God is represented as commanding Moses, and Moses is represented as doing the thing which God required of him, and several times in many of the chapters. Magazines, secular newspapers, and some religious papers are giving currency to these critical attacks on the Word of God. keywords: book; chapter; christ; critics; god; hand; holy; isaiah; israel; law; lord; man; moses; people; prophet; testimony; word cache: 15812.txt plain text: 15812.txt item: #24 of 418 id: 1582 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, New Testament date: None words: 220542 flesch: 91 summary: And they rested not day and night, saying: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come. And many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. 8:12. keywords: behold; body; brethren; cast; chapter; children; church; city; come; day; days; dead; death; disciples; earth; evil; faith; father; flesh; glory; god; good; gospel; grace; great; hand; hath; hear; heaven; holy; house; jerusalem; jesus; jesus christ; jesus saith; jews; john; kingdom; know; law; life; like; lord; lord god; lord jesus; love; man; men; paul; people; peter; place; power; saying; sin; son; speak; spirit; temple; thee; things; thou; thy; time; truth; way; words; world cache: 1582.txt plain text: 1582.txt item: #25 of 418 id: 15836 author: Maclaren, Alexander title: Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St. Matthew Chapters I to VIII date: None words: 253788 flesch: 75 summary: But by slow degrees it is being fulfilled, and by Christ men are being led to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God. It proclaims that in Jesus God dwells among us, and it lays bare the ground of the historical name Jesus, for only by a man who is one of ourselves, and in whom God is with us, can we be saved from our sins. keywords: brethren; bring; character; christ; christian; coming; course; daniel; day; death; desire; divine; earth; end; evil; fact; faith; father; fire; form; forth; future; gift; glory; god; good; gospel; great; hand; hath; heart; heaven; hope; house; human; israel; jesus; jesus christ; judgment; kingdom; law; life; light; like; lives; look; lord; lord god; love; makes; man; meaning; means; men; mercy; nature; need; new; people; place; point; power; prayer; present; promise; prophecy; prophet; question; regard; religion; righteousness; second; self; sense; set; shall; sin; son; soul; spirit; stand; temple; text; thee; things; think; thou; thought; thy; time; truth; unto; verse; vision; way; words; work; world cache: 15836.txt plain text: 15836.txt item: #26 of 418 id: 15874 author: James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes) title: Old Testament Legends Being stories out of some of the less-known apocryphal books of the Old Testament date: None words: 36809 flesch: 82 summary: When they took him to the school, the teacher said, 'Say A.' The wolf said, 'Lamb.' And when Joseph saw Aseneth he also marvelled, and said, Who art thou, maiden? keywords: abraham; adam; aseneth; day; death; eve; father; god; house; joseph; king; like; lord; man; men; pharaoh; saw; son; thee; thou; thy cache: 15874.txt plain text: 15874.txt item: #27 of 418 id: 16042 author: None title: The Wonder Book of Bible Stories date: None words: 50409 flesch: 88 summary: Then Stephen began to speak of the great things that God had done for his people Israel in the past; how he had called Abraham, their father, to go forth into a new land; how he had given them great men, as Joseph, and Moses, and the prophets. He had two wives, as did many men in that time. keywords: david; father; god; good; great; house; illustration; jacob; jesus; joseph; king; land; lord; man; men; people; place; son; story; time; years cache: 16042.txt plain text: 16042.txt item: #28 of 418 id: 16290 author: Tidwell, Josiah Blake title: The Bible Book by Book A Manual for the Outline Study of the Bible by Books date: None words: 48553 flesch: 82 summary: Ch. 2. II. Pure food, animals to be eaten, Ch. II. keywords: acts; analysis; bible; book; chapter; christ; chs; church; discussion; end; etc; gen; god; gospel; iii; israel; jerusalem; jesus; jews; judah; kingdom; law; life; list; man; paul; people; purpose; second; sin; study; time; work cache: 16290.txt plain text: 16290.txt item: #29 of 418 id: 16461 author: Palmer, Frank Nelson title: A Bird's-Eye View of the Bible Second Edition date: None words: 15738 flesch: 89 summary: +--------------+------------+-------------+-----------+---------------+--------------+ |Beginning and | 4004-1689 | 1571-1451 | 1451-1095 | 1095-975 | 975-606 B.C. | |Ending Dates | B.C. +--------------+------------+-------------+-----------+---------------+--------------+ |NUMBER OF | | | | | | |BOOKS | 2 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 12 | keywords: --------------+ |; antioch |; bible; book; chapter; christ; following; god; john |; kingdom; kings |; page; place |; questions; record; word; work |; | +; | |; | |3; | |a; | |h cache: 16461.txt plain text: 16461.txt item: #30 of 418 id: 16878 author: Newton, Isaac title: Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John date: None words: 72328 flesch: 77 summary: But [4] when _Shishak_ was dead, and _Egypt_ fell into troubles, _Judah_ had quiet ten years; and in that time _ _Egypt_ abounded most with the reliques of Saints and Martyrs, the _Egyptians_ keeping them embalmed upon beds even in their private houses; and _Alexandria_ was eminent above all other cities for dispersing them, so as on that account to acquire glory with all men, and manifest herself to be the _Metropolis_ of the world. keywords: a.c; altar; antiochus; army; asia; beast; beginning; bishop; body; book; chap; christ; christians; church; churches; cities; city; coming; constantine; council; cum; daniel; days; death; dominion; dragon; earth; egypt; emperor; empire; end; epistle; following; fourth; franks; gallia; goat; god; great; greek; hand; heaven; high; holy; horn; hunns; italy; jerusalem; jews; john; judea; king; kingdom; law; martyrs; matth; men; months; nations; pannonia; passover; people; peter; place; pope; power; prophecy; prophets; prã; qui; reign; religion; romans; rome; saints; saith; sea; seal; second; set; seventh; son; temple; things; thou; throne; time; vandals; war; wars; weeks; western; woman; words; worship; year cache: 16878.txt plain text: 16878.txt item: #31 of 418 id: 17162 author: Anonymous title: Mother Stories from the Old Testament A Book of the Best Stories from the Old Testament that Mothers can tell their Children date: None words: 14339 flesch: 85 summary: Then God made man. At length God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. keywords: city; david; god; illustration; israelites; king; land; lord; man; moses; mother; people; son cache: 17162.txt plain text: 17162.txt item: #32 of 418 id: 17163 author: Anonymous title: Mother Stories from the New Testament A Book of the Best Stories from the New Testament that Mothers can tell their Children date: None words: 14599 flesch: 85 summary: Of course, there were good men among them; St. Matthew was a tax-gatherer before Jesus called him to follow Him. The birth of Jesus Christ was announced by two remarkable events: the coming of wise men from the East, and the appearance of angels to some shepherds at Bethlehem. keywords: christ; day; disciples; god; good; illustration; jesus; lord; man; men; people; thou cache: 17163.txt plain text: 17163.txt item: #33 of 418 id: 17166 author: Weed, George Ludington title: A Life of St. John for the Young date: None words: 57196 flesch: 81 summary: But at last John learned more concerning Christ than any of them. Such John had thought Him to be. keywords: chapter; christ; coming; cross; day; disciples; father; galilee; glory; god; hand; home; hour; illustration; james; jerusalem; jesus; john; life; lord; love; man; mary; master; messiah; mother; peter; place; son; spirit; things; thou; thought; time; tomb; words; years cache: 17166.txt plain text: 17166.txt item: #34 of 418 id: 17265 author: Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter) title: Companion to the Bible date: None words: 249764 flesch: 67 summary: The Latin bible thus in part revised and in part translated by Jerome (most of the Apocryphal writings being left unrevised) is called the _Vulgate_, that is _common_ or _current_ version, although this term belonged, before the days of Jerome, to the Old Latin itself. Hence the distinction made by Eusebius between the _acknowledged_ books, (_homologoumena_) that is, those that were universally received from the first, and the _disputed_ books, (_antilegomena_,) books respecting which some entertained doubts. keywords: account; acts; age; apostle; apostolic; authority; book; canon; century; chap; chapter; character; christ; church; churches; come; connection; contents; covenant; day; days; divine; end; epistle; example; faith; form; general; god; good; gospel; greek; hebrew; history; holy; human; interpretation; israel; jerusalem; jesus; jewish; jews; john; kingdom; kings; language; later; law; life; lord; lord god; luke; man; manuscripts; mark; meaning; mosaic; moses; office; order; original; paul; people; place; power; present; prophecies; prophecy; prophets; question; respect; revelation; saviour; second; sense; seq; son; spirit; testament; testimony; text; time; truth; version; view; way; words; work; world; writers; writings; years cache: 17265.txt plain text: 17265.txt item: #35 of 418 id: 17273 author: Boys, John title: An Exposition of the Last Psalme date: None words: 9947 flesch: 82 summary: [g]Euery good and perfit gift is from aboue, descending from the father of lights, a good thought in a saint is _gratia infusa_, a good word in a saint is _gratia effusa_, a good deed in a saint is _gratia diffusa_, through his grace which is the God of [h]all grace, saints are [i]whatsoeuer they are. An Idoll as _Paul_ affirmes, 1. Cor. keywords: bee; cap; church; daies; day; euery; god; gods; good; hath; haue; heauen; holy; loc; lord; man; men; praise; saints; sanctuarie; sidenote; text; thou; vnto; vpon cache: 17273.txt plain text: 17273.txt item: #36 of 418 id: 17626 author: Sadler, M. F. (Michael Ferrebee) title: The Lost Gospel and Its Contents Or, The Author of "Supernatural Religion" Refuted by Himself date: None words: 54968 flesch: 66 summary: anôthen erchomenos], as coming from heaven, as leaving the world and going to the Father (John iii. 31; xvi. 28), and Justin reproduces this in the words:-- It is declared [by David in Prophecy,] that He would come forth from the highest heavens, and again return to the same places, in order that you may recognize Him as God coming forth from above and man living among men. The last place noticed is Justin's reproduction of John iii. 3-5, in connection with the institution of baptism. keywords: account; author; christ; church; doctrine; fact; father; fourth; god; gospel; greek; iii; jesus; john; justin; life; logos; lord; luke; man; men; miracles; nature; place; power; reader; religion; section; son; spirit; things; time; truth; word cache: 17626.txt plain text: 17626.txt item: #37 of 418 id: 18187 author: Hunting, Harold B. (Harold Bruce) title: Hebrew Life and Times date: None words: 48377 flesch: 80 summary: On the other hand, probably most of them were willing to put up with the disagreeable odors and the dirty streets for the sake of being near other people. BACK TO THE DESERT Under these conditions it was natural that many people should look back with longing to the olden times, especially to the time of Moses, before the people had left the desert and settled in Canaan. keywords: bible; book; canaan; canaanite; chapter; children; city; david; day; days; desert; egypt; god; good; hebrews; isaiah; jehovah; jerusalem; jesus; jews; kind; king; land; law; life; man; men; moses; nation; new; people; prophets; religion; sacrifices; story; study; time; world; worship; years; | | cache: 18187.txt plain text: 18187.txt item: #38 of 418 id: 18316 author: Anonymous title: Notable Women of Olden Time date: None words: 44603 flesch: 64 summary: The family of faith, where faith is pure, will ever be a family of love; and as true piety is the best security for family happiness, so family love is the best nurse for family piety. An immutable decree--his own--separated him from one lately so beloved, and so truly worthy of high honour. keywords: abraham; character; child; children; daughter; egypt; faith; family; father; god; hagar; haman; heart; honour; influence; israel; jacob; jehovah; king; land; life; lord; love; mordecai; mother; people; power; race; royal; sarah; son; wife; woman cache: 18316.txt plain text: 18316.txt item: #39 of 418 id: 18503 author: Spicer, William Ambrose title: Our Day In the Light of Prophecy date: None words: 93868 flesch: 74 summary: Horatius Bonar's hymn sings the joyful hope as the loved are laid away to sleep in Jesus: Softly within that peaceful resting place We lay their wearied limbs, and bid the clay Press lightly on them till the night be past, And the far east give note of coming day. As the rugged verse of the old hymn puts it: Let all the heathen writers join To form one perfect book: Great God, if once compared with Thine, How mean their writings look! keywords: angels; babylon; bible; book; christ; church; city; coming; daniel; day; days; dead; death; earth; empire; end; events; glory; god; gospel; heaven; history; holy; hour; illustration; jerusalem; jesus; judgment; king; kingdom; law; life; light; lord; man; men; message; nations; new; papacy; people; period; place; power; prophecy; prophet; prophetic; rev; roman; rome; sabbath; satan; second; signs; sin; things; thou; thy; time; vision; words; work; world; years cache: 18503.txt plain text: 18503.txt item: #40 of 418 id: 20578 author: Chappell, Clovis Gillham title: Sermons on Biblical Characters date: None words: 57525 flesch: 90 summary: We are interested in bad men, in courageous men, in poor men and rich men, but good men--our interest lags here, nods, drowses, goes to sleep. And there are many men just as worthless to-day. keywords: child; christ; david; day; face; fact; faith; father; god; going; good; hand; heart; home; jesus; life; lord; love; man; men; mother; peter; place; question; right; sin; soul; things; thomas; time; water; way; woman; world; years cache: 20578.txt plain text: 20578.txt item: #41 of 418 id: 21112 author: Burgon, John William title: The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels date: None words: 98070 flesch: 74 summary: Conversely, [Syriac letters] is used as the rendering of other Greek words besides [Greek: phrazein], e.g. of [Greek: epiluein], St. Mark iv. 34; of [Greek: diermêneuein], St. Luke xxiv. The Old Latin and the Syriac versions must have been executed from Greek copies which exhibited,--[Greek: apechei to telos]. keywords: a.d; account; aleph; attention; authorities; case; causes; century; chapter; church; clause; cod; codex; codexes; copies; copy; corruption; course; critics; cursives; cyril; day; error; evangelist; evidence; exhibit; expression; fact; fathers; fourth; gospel; greek; hand; harkleian; hort; iii; instance; john; kai; latin; lewis; lord; luke; man; mark; matt; matter; matthew; meaning; men; mss; note; number; omission; opp; order; origen; parallel; passage; period; peshitto; place; point; present; question; reader; reading; scripture; second; sentence; subject; symbol; syriac; testament; testimony; text; time; tischendorf; tou; traditional; tregelles; truth; tôn; uncials; verses; versions; vii; viii; viz; vulgate; way; westcott; words; xiii cache: 21112.txt plain text: 21112.txt item: #42 of 418 id: 21190 author: Maclaren, Alexander title: Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. date: None words: 250192 flesch: 72 summary: Through Jesus Christ life may be quickened into watchfulness. Like careful housewives who are never content to cease their scrubbing while a speck remains upon furniture, Christian men are to regard their work as unfinished as long as the least trace of the unclean thing remains in their flesh or in their spirit. keywords: aim; apostle; bear; believe; brethren; character; christian; church; course; day; death; divine; earth; end; experience; fact; faith; father; flesh; forth; gift; glory; god; good; gospel; grace; hand; heart; heaven; hold; hope; human; iii; jesus christ; joy; knowledge; law; life; light; lives; living; look; lord; lord jesus; love; man; means; men; mind; nature; need; new; note; order; paul; peace; people; perfect; power; prayer; present; purpose; question; religion; salvation; self; sense; set; sin; son; sorrow; soul; spirit; text; things; thought; time; trust; truth; way; words; work; world cache: 21190.txt plain text: 21190.txt item: #43 of 418 id: 21610 author: Pollyen, Howard D. title: The Secret of the Creation date: None words: 13702 flesch: 92 summary: The fourth day he created great lights, the sun and moon and stars, and set them in the firmament above the earth. And the moon and the stars in their courses over the earth drew up the metallic substance of the earth and distilled and gave it to the sun; and he in his great speed cast them out upon the earth, again in minute atoms, and as they came in contact with their own primordial atoms which lie upon the earth, and more densely in the lower parts of the earth, they explode, causing atmospherical heat; each atom giving forth a yellow flame of light as it explodes, so minute that one light cannot be distinguished from another by the sense of man. keywords: day; earth; great; high; jehovah; life; light; man; power; praise; things; time cache: 21610.txt plain text: 21610.txt item: #44 of 418 id: 21828 author: Stalker, James title: The Life of St. Paul date: None words: 45640 flesch: 72 summary: A writer recently gave me this thought about Paul: What makes St. Paul so interesting is his conception of the dimensions of life. To Paul Christian morality was emphatically a morality of motives. keywords: apostles; chapter; character; christ; christian; christianity; church; churches; city; epistles; faith; gentiles; god; gospel; great; heart; history; jerusalem; jesus; jews; journey; law; life; love; man; men; mind; nature; new; paul; place; righteousness; roman; rome; spirit; time; way; work; world; years cache: 21828.txt plain text: 21828.txt item: #45 of 418 id: 21872 author: Maclaren, Alexander title: The Life of David: As Reflected in His Psalms date: None words: 54213 flesch: 69 summary: In Chapter XV, eighth paragraph, second last line, His changed to his in the sentence Happy thoughts, not fears, hold his eyes waking to agree with the author's obvious reference to David rather than to God.} And then, in strange contrast with the meditative quiet and lowly duties of these first years, came the crowded vicissitudes of the tempestuous course through which he reached his throne--court minstrel, companion and friend of a king, idol of the people, champion of the armies of God--and in his sudden elevation keeping the gracious sweetness of his lowlier, and perhaps happier days. keywords: cry; david; day; days; divine; earth; enemies; evil; faith; god; hand; heart; house; israel; jehovah; king; life; light; lord; love; man; men; nature; people; period; power; praise; prayer; psalm; psalmist; round; sam; saul; sin; soul; spirit; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; trust; voice; words; world; years cache: 21872.txt plain text: 21872.txt item: #46 of 418 id: 22075 author: Wilmot-Buxton, H. J. (Harry John) title: The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles date: None words: 55484 flesch: 84 summary: Look again through the open door, and learn that in Heaven God is the central figure. 11. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. keywords: brethren; brothers; children; christ; christian; church; city; day; death; earth; flowers; god; good; heart; heaven; holy; home; jesus; life; lives; look; lord; love; man; men; people; place; school; sin; spirit; sunday; things; time; trinity; way; words; work; world cache: 22075.txt plain text: 22075.txt item: #47 of 418 id: 22162 author: Anonymous title: Children of the Old Testament date: None words: 20118 flesch: 80 summary: But David was so strong and brave, and such a favourite with the tribesmen, that the king set him over a troop of young men; and whenever Saul went out to fight, David and his band went with him, and this greatly pleased the chiefs and the fighting-men of the army. Other little children were born to her, but still she remembered him, away among bearded men in that large, dark tent; and this is how she showed her love for him. keywords: boy; brothers; child; david; day; father; god; joseph; king; man; men; mother; prophet; samuel; time cache: 22162.txt plain text: 22162.txt item: #48 of 418 id: 22237 author: Moule, H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) title: Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews date: None words: 27023 flesch: 68 summary: Jesus Christ is GOD (ver. 8); the Son (ver. 2); absolutely _like_ the Father (ver. 3); Lord of the bright Company of Heaven, who in all their ranks and orders worship Him (ver. 6); creative Originator of the Universe (ver. 10), such that the starry depths of space are but the folds of His vesture, which hereafter He shall change for another (ver. 12); Himself eternal, the same, transcendent above all time, yet all the while the Son begotten, the Son, infinitely adequate and infinitely willing to be the final Vehicle of the Father's voice to us (verses 1, 5, 6). And our deliverance demanded His identification with us in nature, and His temptations (ver. 18), and finally His mysterious suffering. keywords: chapter; christ; christian; church; covenant; epistle; faith; glory; god; greek; heart; jesus; law; life; lord; man; order; peace; priest; sacrifice; son; things; thought; time; ver; word cache: 22237.txt plain text: 22237.txt item: #49 of 418 id: 22376 author: Meyer, F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) title: Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. date: None words: 89254 flesch: 76 summary: Lord Jesus Christ, grow Thou in me, And all things else recede. If you are in doubt as to what Heaven is like, is it not enough to know that it will be in accord with the nature and presence and choice of Jesus Christ? keywords: bear; body; christ; church; come; cross; day; death; disciples; divine; faith; father; glory; god; good; hand; heart; heaven; holy; holy spirit; human; jesus; jesus christ; john; left; life; light; lord; lord jesus; love; man; master; men; moment; nature; need; new; peace; peter; pilate; power; prayer; presence; sin; son; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; thought; time; truth; way; words; work; world cache: 22376.txt plain text: 22376.txt item: #50 of 418 id: 22459 author: Pullan, Leighton title: The Books of the New Testament date: None words: 101049 flesch: 72 summary: Perhaps we may account for it by accepting Renan's suggestion that St. Peter, St. John, and St. Paul were in Rome together. v. 1 speaks of himself as a presbyter, as St. John does in 2 John 1 and 3 John 1 (compare also 1 Tim. iv. 14, where St. Paul reckons himself as a member of the presbytery). keywords: a.d; acts; apostle; author; book; century; christ; christians; church; date; death; doctrine; epistle; evidence; fact; find; god; gospel; greek; iii; james; jerusalem; jesus; jews; john; law; letter; life; lord; luke; man; mark; matt; paul; peter; revelation; rome; second; sidenote; teaching; testament; time; words; work; writer cache: 22459.txt plain text: 22459.txt item: #51 of 418 id: 23038 author: Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey) title: Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation date: None words: 59805 flesch: 81 summary: Our Lord Jesus _purchased_ men out of their slavery back to their original Lord,--with all that was rightfully theirs. And it is to John, the bosom friend, whose friendship stood the severest test where all others failed, that He now shows Himself in glory, and entrusts this pleading message, and vision of coming events, and of the after glory. keywords: book; christ; church; coming; day; earth; end; events; evil; eyes; fire; glory; god; heart; holy; jesus; john; kingdom; language; life; light; like; lord; lord jesus; love; man; men; message; new; people; personal; power; presence; revelation; spirit; things; throne; time; waiting; words; world cache: 23038.txt plain text: 23038.txt item: #52 of 418 id: 23438 author: Taylor, James Hudson title: A Ribband of Blue, and Other Bible Studies date: None words: 16273 flesch: 74 summary: In the 8th verse of the 1st chapter, GOD Himself bears testimony to His servant: that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth GOD, and escheweth evil; and in the 2nd chapter and 3rd verse, He repeats the same testimony, adding: still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst Me against him, to destroy him without cause. It was not to be supposed that any one might present his sacrifice to GOD according to his own thought and plan. keywords: christ; father; god; good; heart; job; life; lord; lord god; man; satan; spirit; way; word; work cache: 23438.txt plain text: 23438.txt item: #53 of 418 id: 25901 author: None title: The New Testament Translated From the Original Greek, With Chronological Arrangement of the Sacred Books, and Improved Divisions of Chapters and Verses. date: None words: 177512 flesch: 83 summary: [12:3]I assure you, therefore, that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus an accursed thing, and no one can call Jesus Lord, except by the Holy Spirit. [16:7]And I heard the altar say, Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments. keywords: account; behold; body; brothers; cast; chapter; chief; children; city; coming; day; days; dead; death; disciples; earth; evil; faith; father; flesh; glory; god; good; grace; great; hand; hear; heaven; holy; house; jerusalem; jesus; jesus christ; jews; john; kingdom; law; life; lord god; lord jesus; love; man; men; multitude; paul; people; peter; place; power; saying; seeing; servant; sin; son; speak; spirit; temple; things; time; truth; voice; woman; word; works cache: 25901.txt plain text: 25901.txt item: #54 of 418 id: 25904 author: Meyer, F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) title: John the Baptist date: None words: 62381 flesch: 73 summary: He waits to empower us to witness for Jesus, to endure the persecution and trial which are inevitable to the exercise of a God-given ministry, and to bring other men to God. ISRAEL: A Prince with God. keywords: baptist; christ; day; days; dead; death; disciples; elijah; faith; father; fire; forth; glory; god; good; hand; heart; heaven; herod; holy; jesus; john; king; kingdom; life; light; lord; man; men; ministry; nature; people; power; prophet; repentance; sin; sins; son; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; thy; time; voice; way; words; work; world; years cache: 25904.txt plain text: 25904.txt item: #55 of 418 id: 26094 author: A. L. O. E. title: Hebrew Heroes: A Tale Founded on Jewish History date: None words: 70213 flesch: 74 summary: And much Zarah wept for her father--though in remembering him a deep spring of joy mingled with her sorrow. Zarah leant against the wall, and raised her clasped hands towards the glimpse of sky seen between those dark bars. keywords: abishai; anna; antiochus; athenian; child; daughter; day; death; earth; eyes; face; faith; father; god; grave; greek; hadassah; hand; head; heart; hebrew; jerusalem; joab; judas; king; lady; left; life; look; lord; lycidas; maccabeus; maiden; man; men; mind; mother; night; place; pollux; son; syrian; thought; time; way; words; zarah cache: 26094.txt plain text: 26094.txt item: #56 of 418 id: 26172 author: Taylor, James Hudson title: Union and Communion; or, Thoughts on the Song of Solomon date: None words: 17629 flesch: 78 summary: Wonderful, however, as are the revelations of grace and love to the heart taught by the HOLY SPIRIT through the relationship of bride and Bridegroom, the CHRIST of GOD is more than Bridegroom to His people. 'Let Him kiss me with the kisses of His mouth: for Thy love is better than wine.' keywords: beloved; bride; bridegroom; christ; communion; daughters; god; heart; jerusalem; king; lord; love; section; service; thee; thou cache: 26172.txt plain text: 26172.txt item: #57 of 418 id: 26361 author: None title: The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The common English version, corrected by the final committee of the American Bible Union. date: None words: 180150 flesch: 82 summary: (3)And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God the Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of the nations. (7)And I heard, out of the altar, one saying[16:7]: Even so, Lord God the Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments. keywords: body; brethren; brother; cast; christ; city; coming; day; days; dead; death; disciples; earth; evil; faith; father; flesh; glory; god; good; hand; hear; heaven; holy; house; jerusalem; jesus; jesus christ; jews; john; kingdom; law; life; lord; lord god; lord jesus; love; man; men; multitude; paul; people; peter; power; saying; says; shall; son; speak; spirit; thee; things; thou; thy; time; works; world cache: 26361.txt plain text: 26361.txt item: #58 of 418 id: 26384 author: Taylor, James Hudson title: Separation and Service; or, Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. date: None words: 16358 flesch: 72 summary: _ We have already seen that GOD tested the obedience of the Nazarite in the matter of food: pleasing GOD was rather to be chosen than the most tempting cluster of grapes. Here we have the blessing that GOD _delights_ to give to those who have dedicated themselves and their all to Him. keywords: blessing; christ; day; father; god; heart; lord; love; offering; peace; people; service; son; spirit; thee cache: 26384.txt plain text: 26384.txt item: #59 of 418 id: 26760 author: Macduff, John R. (John Ross) title: Memories of Bethany date: None words: 52757 flesch: 75 summary: _happier_ history, for it will not _then_ be to come forth once more, like _him_, into a weeping world, to renew our work and warfare, feeling that restoration to life is only but a brief reprieve, and that soon again the irrevocable sentence will and must overtake us! Yes, there is _tarrying_ love as well as _succouring_ love. keywords: bethany; brother; come; day; dead; death; disciples; earth; earthly; faith; friend; glory; god; grave; heart; heaven; holy; home; hour; human; jerusalem; jesus; lazarus; life; lord; love; man; martha; mary; moment; power; saviour; sorrow; spirit; tears; thee; think; thou; thought; thy; time; voice; words; world cache: 26760.txt plain text: 26760.txt item: #60 of 418 id: 27510 author: None title: Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature date: None words: 59581 flesch: 78 summary: A third person's tongue hath shaken many, and dispersed them from nation to nation; and it hath pulled down strong cities, and overthrown the houses of great men. He will serve among great men, and appear before him that ruleth. keywords: balaam; brethren; day; earth; egypt; eyes; father; form; forth; god; good; hand; hast; hath; heart; house; israel; joseph; king; land; life; lord; lord god; lord thy; man; men; nations; o lord; pass; people; pharaoh; place; saith; son; sword; thee; thine; thou; thy; thy god; unto; voice; way; wisdom cache: 27510.txt plain text: 27510.txt item: #61 of 418 id: 27654 author: None title: The Story Of The Prophet Jonas date: None words: 1363 flesch: 86 summary: Wherefore they cried unto the Lord and said: O Lord let us not perish for this mans death, neither lay innocent blood unto our charge: for thou Lord even as thy pleasure was, so thou hast done. Wherefore Jonas was sore discontent and angry. keywords: jonas; lord cache: 27654.txt plain text: 27654.txt item: #62 of 418 id: 27978 author: Luther, Martin title: Commentary on Genesis, Vol. 2: Luther on Sin and the Flood date: None words: 130226 flesch: 79 summary: Good God! Our hope and prayer are that God may use this volume to make the book of Genesis and the whole Old Testament a greater spiritual blessing to the Church and that it may serve the servants of God in these latter days in calling people to repentance, faith and prayer like Noah and Luther did. keywords: abel; adam; ark; believe; brother; cain; children; christ; church; day; death; earth; enoch; evil; faith; father; flesh; flood; god; good; holy; human; jews; lamech; law; life; man; men; moses; nature; noah; parents; patriarchs; people; place; promise; punishment; reason; righteous; seed; sin; sons; spirit; things; thou; time; wicked; words; world; wrath; years cache: 27978.txt plain text: 27978.txt item: #63 of 418 id: 28248 author: Miller, Hugh title: The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed date: None words: 156898 flesch: 56 summary: 'the period of _plants_; the period of _great sea monsters and creeping things_; and the period of _cattle and beasts of the earth_;' and that the first of these periods is represented by the rocks grouped under the term _Palæozoic_, and is distinguished from the _Secondary_ and _ If geologists inferred, as they well might, that the extinct flora which had originated the European coal vastly outrivalled in luxuriance that of the existing time, what shall be said of that flora of the same age which originated the coal deposits of Nova Scotia and the United States,--deposits _twenty times as great_ as all those of all Europe put together! keywords: ages; animals; appearance; argument; ark; author; bearing; beds; birds; british; carboniferous; character; class; cloth; coal; common; country; course; creation; day; days; death; deluge; deposits; divine; earth; ere; evidence; existence; extinct; eye; fact; family; feet; fern; fig; find; fishes; flood; flora; form; fossil; geologic; geologist; geology; god; half; hand; heavens; high; history; hold; human; illustration; instance; land; length; life; light; like; line; mammals; man; men; middle; miller; mind; nature; new; number; oolitic; order; organisms; parts; period; place; plants; point; portion; present; principle; question; red; remains; revelation; rocks; sandstone; scarce; science; scotland; scripture; sea; second; series; set; shells; silurian; size; species; state; sun; surface; system; tertiary; time; trees; truth; type; upper; vegetable; view; vision; water; work; world; years; | | cache: 28248.txt plain text: 28248.txt item: #64 of 418 id: 29067 author: Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman title: Hurlbut's Bible Lessons for Boys and Girls date: None words: 19825 flesch: 99 summary: =6.= Which of J[=e]´[s+]us' disciples agreed to sell him to his enemies? =J[=u]´das.= =7.= What did the enemies of J[=e]´[s+]us promise to give J[=u]´das, if he would give J[=e]´[s+]us to them? =Angels from God.= =7.= What good news did they bring to [=A]´br[)a]-h[)a]m? keywords: 4.=; 9.=; = 10.=; = 3.=; = 6.=; city; el.= =; god; i][s+]´ra; j[+e]-r[u:]´s[+a]-l[)e]m.= =; j[=e]´[s+]us; king; land; lesson; man; people; place; s[a:]ul; stories; story; tell cache: 29067.txt plain text: 29067.txt item: #65 of 418 id: 29678 author: Luther, Martin title: The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained date: None words: 88411 flesch: 78 summary: But before the birth of Christ God took to Himself for this purpose only a single line, from Adam to Abraham, and thence to David, down to Mary the mother of Christ, who possessed His word. Vehement as are Luther's occasional bursts of indignation, he never wanders from the subject, and never ventures beyond where he is sustained by the clear warrant of the word of God. keywords: body; christ; christian; day; earth; evil; faith; flesh; god; good; gospel; heart; heaven; holy; life; lord; love; man; men; paul; people; peter; power; reason; scripture; sin; spirit; stone; suffer; things; word; works cache: 29678.txt plain text: 29678.txt item: #66 of 418 id: 29971 author: Jennings, Frederick Charles title: Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes date: None words: 45213 flesch: 77 summary: And this is proof of the depravity of the times!--not proof, mark, of just that very thing that is the heart and soul of the book: the weary, unsatisfied, empty heart of poor man looking backward or forward for the satisfaction that the present always fails to give under the sun, and which he, who was wiser than all who came before him, Solomon, warns his readers _against_! in this book in which poor man at his highest is allowed to give voice to his deepest questions, in which all the chaos, and darkness, the without form and void state of his poor, distracted, disjointed being is seen; death is indeed the King of Terrors, upsetting all his reasonings, and bringing the wisdom and folly, between which he had so carefully discriminated, to one level in a moment. keywords: book; day; death; earth; end; glory; god; good; grace; heart; human; jesus; joy; judgment; life; light; lord; love; man; men; new; place; reason; scene; solomon; spirit; sun; things; thou; time; vanity; way; wisdom; word; work cache: 29971.txt plain text: 29971.txt item: #67 of 418 id: 30218 author: Steedman, Amy title: Joseph the Dreamer date: None words: 4138 flesch: 90 summary: But if the gay coat made them angry, they were more angry still when Joseph began to dream strange dreams, which he always told to them. So when the years of famine came there were great stores of corn laid up to feed the Egyptians, and not only the people of Egypt, but strangers from other lands came to Joseph, the Ruler, to buy food. keywords: brothers; coat; father; joseph cache: 30218.txt plain text: 30218.txt item: #68 of 418 id: 30239 author: Steedman, Amy title: The Babe in the Bulrushes date: None words: 4494 flesch: 88 summary: So Jochebed thought of a plan, and prayed to God that He would help her to carry it out. But he was safe, and Jochebed's heart was full of gratitude to God as she took her little son into her arms again. keywords: baby; eli; god; people; samuel cache: 30239.txt plain text: 30239.txt item: #69 of 418 id: 30252 author: Orton, Arthur W. title: The Four-Faced Visitors of Ezekiel date: None words: 7158 flesch: 83 summary: None of these three statements make much of a point, whether the creatures have helicopter wings, or bird-angel wings. We can assume that creatures that look like men but has a surface that resembles lights, coals and fire must be wearing suits with a brightly colored metallic surface. keywords: chapter; creatures; ezekiel; living; man; verse; wheel; wings cache: 30252.txt plain text: 30252.txt item: #70 of 418 id: 30389 author: Thomas, W. H. Griffith (William Henry Griffith) title: The Prayers of St. Paul date: None words: 21627 flesch: 75 summary: Now God Himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you. And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: 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. keywords: apostle; christ; christian; glory; god; grace; heart; knowledge; life; lord; love; peace; power; prayer; spirit cache: 30389.txt plain text: 30389.txt item: #71 of 418 id: 30740 author: Moody, Dwight Lyman title: Men of the Bible date: None words: 35331 flesch: 88 summary: God promised him that great men, and warriors, and kings, and emperors, should spring from his loins. If you will take your stand for God, even if you stand alone, it will not be very long before you will get other men to stand with you. keywords: abram; christ; day; god; good; herod; jesus; john; life; lord; man; men; people; son; thing; time; way; work; world; years cache: 30740.txt plain text: 30740.txt item: #72 of 418 id: 30908 author: Hope, Noel title: The Bible in its Making: The most Wonderful Book in the World date: None words: 28723 flesch: 81 summary: The fact alone that the Word of God can be read to-day in 412 living languages proves clearly that it is no dead book; and when we remember that last year 5,000,000 new copies of the Bible were sent into the busy working world for men and women by one Society alone, we see how truly 'alive' it must be. For more than a thousand years God was calling the best and wisest men of the Jewish nation to write for His Book. keywords: bible; book; christ; city; day; days; god; greek; heathen; jerusalem; jews; king; law; life; lord; moses; people; read; testament; time; words; work; world; years cache: 30908.txt plain text: 30908.txt item: #73 of 418 id: 31018 author: Willard, J. H. (James Hartwell) title: A Farmer's Wife: The Story of Ruth date: None words: 3229 flesch: 81 summary: Then glancing around the field, Boaz saw Ruth among the gleaners and asked the overseer who she was. When Naomi saw what a quantity of barley Ruth had brought home, she asked in whose field she had gleaned. keywords: boaz; illustration; naomi; ruth; story cache: 31018.txt plain text: 31018.txt item: #74 of 418 id: 31350 author: Sell, Henry T. (Henry Thorne) title: Bible Studies in the Life of Paul, Historical and Constructive date: None words: 31166 flesch: 77 summary: Paul Comes to the Front. +The World as Paul Saw It+--The World. keywords: acts; chief; christ; church; churches; city; epistle; faith; god; gospel; jerusalem; jesus christ; jews; journey; life; men; missionary; paul; place; rome; second; time; timothy; way; work; world cache: 31350.txt plain text: 31350.txt item: #75 of 418 id: 31603 author: Gaebelein, Arno Clemens title: Studies in Prophecy date: None words: 46202 flesch: 80 summary: It was the Paradise of God. Groaning creation will be delivered; peace on earth and glory to God in the highest will follow. keywords: age; body; christ; church; coming; day; earth; end; glory; god; heaven; holy; hope; israel; jesus christ; lord; lord jesus; man; nations; people; place; power; revelation; saints; satan; son; spirit; time; tribulation; world cache: 31603.txt plain text: 31603.txt item: #76 of 418 id: 31829 author: Haweis, Thomas title: A Translation of the New Testament from the original Greek Humbly Attempted with a View to Assist the Unlearned with Clearer and More Explicit Views of the Mind of the Spirit in the Scriptures of Truth date: None words: 185613 flesch: 78 summary: (58)And Jesus Said to him, The foxes have holts, and the birds of the air, nests, but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. (10)And as they looked up earnestly into the heaven, while he was passing, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; (11)who also said to them, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up to heaven? keywords: believe; body; brethren; brother; cast; chap; children; city; coming; day; days; dead; death; disciples; earth; father; flesh; forth; glory; god; going; good; gospel; grace; hand; hast; hath; hear; heaven; holy; house; jerusalem; jesus; jesus christ; jews; john; kingdom; know; law; life; lord; lord god; lord jesus; love; man; men; multitude; pass; paul; people; person; peter; power; saith; saw; saying; sin; son; spake; speak; spirit; temple; thee; things; thou; thy; time; truth; world cache: 31829.txt plain text: 31829.txt item: #77 of 418 id: 31876 author: Eiselen, Frederick Carl title: The Christian View of the Old Testament date: None words: 60462 flesch: 59 summary: Similar more or less clearly marked phenomena may {23} be noted in other Old Testament books, all of them bearing witness to the presence of a human element in these writings. In the first place, it is well to note that in less than one fifth of the New Testament {93} quotations from the Old Testament is a personal name connected with the quotation; Jesus himself, in quoting from the Pentateuch and other Old Testament books, frequently omits all reference to the alleged author, which shows that he considered the question of authorship of no special significance in comparison with the truth taught. keywords: babylonian; bible; biblical; book; christian; criticism; day; divine; earth; example; facts; form; god; hebrew; historical; history; human; inscriptions; israel; jehovah; jesus; king; land; life; light; literature; man; modern; new; people; place; purpose; religion; science; scientific; spirit; study; testament; testament books; thou; time; value; view; words; world cache: 31876.txt plain text: 31876.txt item: #78 of 418 id: 32016 author: Gore, Charles title: St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians: A Practical Exposition date: None words: 62996 flesch: 67 summary: There remains, therefore, no room to {53} question that St. Paul believed Christ to be strictly divine: to be Himself no creature, no highest archangel, but one who, with the Holy Spirit alone, is truly proper and essential to the divine being; and it affords us, therefore, no manner of surprise that from time to time St. Paul actually calls Christ God, as in the Epistle to the Romans 'who is over all, God blessed for ever[9],' and probably in the Epistle to Titus 'our great God and saviour Jesus Christ[10].' Thus where a slave _can_ obtain liberty St. Paul exhorts him to prefer it[31]. keywords: acts; apostles; authority; body; brotherhood; catholic; character; christ; christian; christianity; church; doctrine; ephesus; epistle; fact; faith; father; god; good; holy; idea; jesus; life; light; lord; love; man; men; paul; purpose; roman; sense; society; spirit; things; unity; work; world cache: 32016.txt plain text: 32016.txt item: #79 of 418 id: 32673 author: Gore, Charles title: St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans: A Practical Exposition. Vol. I date: None words: 72174 flesch: 71 summary: Even in the closest union God remains God and man man. This it is that St. Paul calls seeking to be justified or commended to God by 'works' or 'works of the law'--not, we must observe, 'good works,' such as are the fruit of a right disposition towards God, of which St. Paul never spoke with any disparagement. keywords: body; christ; christian; church; death; divine; fact; faith; father; flesh; god; good; human; idea; jesus; justification; law; life; lord; love; man; means; men; mind; nature; new; paul; power; righteousness; sense; sin; sins; son; spirit; works; world cache: 32673.txt plain text: 32673.txt item: #80 of 418 id: 32674 author: Gore, Charles title: St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans: A Practical Exposition. Vol. II date: None words: 57025 flesch: 71 summary: St. Paul, on the other hand, asserts that God remains free and absolute to elect and to reject, irrespective of all questions of race, where He will and as He will. _ St. Paul has finished his glowing description of the position and prospects of the elect people of God. keywords: christ; christian; church; come; cor; day; fact; faith; gentiles; god; good; great; human; idea; israel; jesus; jews; judgement; law; life; lord; love; man; men; old; paul; people; principle; purpose; sacrifice; sense; sin; spirit; testament; things; world cache: 32674.txt plain text: 32674.txt item: #81 of 418 id: 33296 author: Brown, Charles Reynolds title: Five Young Men: Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day date: None words: 21831 flesch: 83 summary: He thought deeply upon the interests and needs of men until He knew what was in man and needed not that any should tell Him--He told them. I have brought the addresses together in this little book with the hope that they may have a certain value in their appeal to a wider audience of young men who in school and college, in their homes and in business life, are making those determinations which will decide the issue for them in those exacting years which are before us. keywords: christ; david; day; evil; faith; father; god; good; heart; king; life; lord; man; men; new; place; power; right; son; spirit; strength; things; time; way; world; years cache: 33296.txt plain text: 33296.txt item: #82 of 418 id: 33349 author: Evans, William title: The Shepherd Psalm: A Meditation date: None words: 17055 flesch: 84 summary: Lord signifies also God in Christ, the Jehovah of the Old Testament, God of power, the One who is able to do all things and with whom nothing is impossible, manifesting Himself in Jesus Christ. Really speaking, your religion consists in your personal relationship to God in Jesus Christ. keywords: christ; day; death; god; hand; jesus; lie; life; lord+; psalm; sheep; shepherd; thee; thou; thy; time; valley; verse; word cache: 33349.txt plain text: 33349.txt item: #83 of 418 id: 33515 author: Brown, James Baldwin title: Misread Passages of Scriptures date: None words: 48364 flesch: 74 summary: For much of the pain of life man himself is, directly and in the first instance, responsible. If it pleases God to make some men to be saved and other men to be damned, who shall question His rights? keywords: christ; day; death; divine; earth; esau; forth; god; good; great; hand; heart; history; human; jacob; kingdom; life; lord; love; man; men; nature; pain; power; question; sar; sin; things; thou; thy; toil; words; work; world cache: 33515.txt plain text: 33515.txt item: #84 of 418 id: 33737 author: Anonymous title: The Curtezan unmasked; or, The Whoredomes of Jezebel Painted to the Life With Antidotes against them, or Heavenly Julips to cool Men in the Fever of Lust. date: None words: 7132 flesch: 77 summary: How is that sacred Fire, which among the _Romans_ of old was preserved by their Vestal Virgins, by these changed into _Flames of Lust_, which all their _Holy-water_ will never allay or extinguish? Tiberius_ his naked Pictures to incite your lust; you must not hunt all grounds, draw all seas, search every {20} brook and bush, or dispeople the four Elements to please your wanton lusts, and try experiments upon your judicious palates; but as you must abstain from [21]things _unlawful_, so also from _lawful_ too: You must not onely take care you transcend not the _ keywords: beauty; body; eyes; fire; god; greek; hath; heart; impure; lust; men; self; selves; sin; tis; whilest; woman cache: 33737.txt plain text: 33737.txt item: #85 of 418 id: 35408 author: Hitchcock, Edward title: The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences date: None words: 164044 flesch: 58 summary: the whole constitution of our world, and even its relations to other worlds, must have been altered to fit it for a being who had sinned. But if, as the philosophers now generally admit, there is a subtile and extremely elastic medium pervading all space, why must they not extend to other worlds, yea, to the whole universe? keywords: action; agency; animals; argument; beings; benevolence; bible; bodies; body; case; change; condition; creation; day; death; deity; deluge; divine; earth; evidence; evil; existence; fact; feet; form; geology; globe; god; heat; history; human; hypothesis; infinite; influence; knowledge; laws; life; light; man; material; matter; means; men; mind; natural; nature; new; organic; period; place; plants; power; present; principles; religion; result; revelation; rocks; science; special; species; state; subject; surface; system; thing; time; truth; universe; views; water; work; world; years cache: 35408.txt plain text: 35408.txt item: #86 of 418 id: 35674 author: None title: Walks and Words of Jesus: A Paragraph Harmony of the Four Evangelists date: None words: 73561 flesch: 85 summary: Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? Blessed are ye, when _men_ shall revile you, and persecute _you_, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. keywords: cast; chap; chapter; come; day; disciples; father; god; hast; hath; heaven; house; jesus; jesus saith; john; kingdom; lord; man; men; people; pharisees; saith; saying; son; thee; things; thou; thy; world cache: 35674.txt plain text: 35674.txt item: #87 of 418 id: 35682 author: Heuser, Herman J. (Herman Joseph) title: Chapters of Bible Study A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Sacred Scriptures date: None words: 46103 flesch: 60 summary: Yet, as a traveller in search of fortune may pass over seemingly barren tracts of desert land or mountain ridge, which treasure beneath the surface richest mines of gold, and caverns of splendid crystal and rarest marble, so the reader of the sacred books, in search of knowledge, may wearily tread along the paths of Bible truths, his eye bewildered by endless repetitions of precepts and monotonous scenes and seemingly uninteresting facts, unconscious of what wealth and beauty lie beneath him. In other words, if verbal inspiration is not to be admitted, how far does inspiration actually extend in the formation of the written text? keywords: bible; book; catholic; christ; church; day; divine; doctrine; english; faith; god; greek; hebrew; holy; human; inspiration; interpretation; knowledge; language; law; light; man; men; new; sacred; sacred scriptures; scriptures; sense; study; teaching; testament; text; things; time; truth; use; word; work; writings cache: 35682.txt plain text: 35682.txt item: #88 of 418 id: 36216 author: Gaebelein, Arno Clemens title: Studies in Zechariah date: None words: 53037 flesch: 79 summary: Even so come, Lord Jesus, our Lord and Israel's King! Our own individual salvation eternally assured, we ought to cry continually Even so, come Lord Jesus. keywords: chapter; church; city; coming; day; earth; glory; god; great; heaven; house; israel; jehovah; jerusalem; jews; king; land; lord; man; nations; people; prophet; shepherd; son; spirit; temple; time; vision; word; zechariah cache: 36216.txt plain text: 36216.txt item: #89 of 418 id: 36264 author: Broadus, John Albert title: A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version date: None words: 153936 flesch: 87 summary: And | 6 And the |32 And they | Jerusalem, they went | disciples | that were sent|13 took the away, and | went, and did | went away, and| branches of found a colt | even as Jesus | found even as | the palm tied at the | appointed | he had said | trees, and door without | them, | unto them. [3]offended | go both to | will lay down 30 I. And Jesus | in thee, I | prison and to| my life for saith unto | will never be|34 death. keywords: and| |; but| |; chief |; footnote; goeth |; hath |; hour |; luke; manner |; of| |; saith |; shall; straightway |; the| |; thou |; thy |; unto; ye |; | art; | authority; | blood; | body; | brethren; | brother; | city; | cometh; | cross; | david; | days; | death; | deut; | disciples; | elders; | father; | feast; | galilee; | generation; | god; | hand; | heaven; | herodias; | house; | isa; | jerusalem; | jesus; | john; | kingdom; | lord; | man; | men; | mother; | mountain; | multitude; | pass; | passover; | peace; | people; | peter; | pilate; | power; | priests; | ps; | release; | sake; | saying; | scribes; | sea; | section; | simon; | son; | stone; | sword; | teaching; | temple; | thee; | things; | thrice; | verse; | wife; | wilderness; | woman; | |; | |23 cache: 36264.txt plain text: 36264.txt item: #90 of 418 id: 36266 author: Bradlaugh, Charles title: The Bible: What It Is! date: None words: 79209 flesch: 71 summary: We are persuaded that the Jews being under the guidance of God himself, could experience no events but such as were stamped with the seal of the divinity, and quite different from what happened to other men. The other account commences with the fourth verse of the second chapter, and in this the words translated 'Lord God' are [------]; what these really mean it is impossible to say, unless they mean Chief of the Gods. keywords: abraham; account; bible; book; chap; chapter; children; creation; day; death; deity; douay; earth; egypt; egyptians; evidence; fact; family; father; genesis; god; good; hebrew; history; israelites; jacob; jews; joshua; king; land; law; life; lord; lord god; man; men; moses; nation; order; page; people; place; present; reason; samuel; saul; second; son; text; thy; time; verse; vide; water; word; work; years cache: 36266.txt plain text: 36266.txt item: #91 of 418 id: 36267 author: Bradlaugh, Charles title: When Were Our Gospels Written? date: None words: 14219 flesch: 58 summary: Christianity, writes Dr. Tischendorf, does not, strictly speaking, rest on the moral teaching of Jesus; it rests on his person only. That the devils and God should hold converse together, although not without parallel in the book of Job, is inconsistent with the theory of an infinitely good Deity; that the devils should address Jesus as son of the most high God, and beg to be allowed to enter a herd of swine, is at least ludicrous; yet all this helps to make up the narrative on which Dr. Tischendorf relies. keywords: christian; evidence; god; gospels; jesus; john; luke; matthew; new; society; son; text; tischendorf; tract; writings cache: 36267.txt plain text: 36267.txt item: #92 of 418 id: 36444 author: Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman title: Studies in Old Testament History date: None words: 27607 flesch: 84 summary: Wat. roc. Kad. 9.) It was a necessary element in the divine plan that Israel should dwell apart from other nations (Num. 23. 9). keywords: bible; captivity; david; egypt; empire; exod; god; history; israel; israelites; jews; judah; kingdom; kings; land; lesson; new; people; period; religion; sam; solomon; study; time; tribes; world; years cache: 36444.txt plain text: 36444.txt item: #93 of 418 id: 36584 author: Mortimer, Favell Lee title: The Blind Beggar of Jericho date: None words: 1133 flesch: 99 summary: Jesus, who was so very kind, Who came to pardon sinful men, Who heal'd the sick, and cur'd the blind: It is very common to see blind men begging in the streets. keywords: jesus; lord cache: 36584.txt plain text: 36584.txt item: #94 of 418 id: 36610 author: Dobschütz, Ernst von title: The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation date: None words: 43531 flesch: 66 summary: Bible history in the embellished form which we have just now observed inspired mediæval art. It shows at the same time the demand for Bible copies; the printer felt sure that it would sell and pay. keywords: authority; bible; book; century; christian; christianity; church; civilisation; fact; form; german; god; gospel; great; greek; history; holy; influence; jesus; law; life; luther; man; new; order; people; period; read; reading; roman; saint; spirit; testament; text; time; translation; use; view; way; work; world cache: 36610.txt plain text: 36610.txt item: #95 of 418 id: 36611 author: Anonymous title: Bible Stories and Pictures. From the Old and New Testaments date: None words: 1269 flesch: 87 summary: When Jesus Christ was about thirty years old, he began to preach the glad tidings of salvation. Then Jesus, hearing this, reproved his disciples and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven. keywords: illustration; jesus cache: 36611.txt plain text: 36611.txt item: #96 of 418 id: 36614 author: Mortimer, Favell Lee title: The Child Who Died and Lived Again date: None words: 1275 flesch: 97 summary: Yet once there was a man in this world who made dead people alive. Yet we are sure he said true, for if he had been a wicked man he could not have made dead people alive again. keywords: jesus; people cache: 36614.txt plain text: 36614.txt item: #97 of 418 id: 36627 author: Mangasarian, M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) title: How the Bible was Invented A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society date: None words: 9792 flesch: 72 summary: To this day, the Catholics have to go to a closet--that is to say they have to secure permission, before they can read the Word of God.[1] To show that we have Bible authority for the statements made above, we will quote from the Book of Deuteronomy, chapter xxxi, verse 24, etc: And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished. Not only were individual passages invented and slipped into the Pagan writings, but a number of books were written and attributed to the greatest shining lights of the old Roman world. keywords: ark; bible; book; christian; church; god; gospels; jesus; law; lying; man; people; truth; word; years cache: 36627.txt plain text: 36627.txt item: #98 of 418 id: 36655 author: Moody, Dwight Lyman title: Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study date: None words: 31963 flesch: 87 summary: That is just what men are trying to do; and the result is that they fail; the wisdom of man never made man any better. I have seen work after work wrecked because men lost confidence in the spirit of this Old Book. YOUNG CONVERTS. keywords: bible; book; chapter; christ; day; god; good; gospel; great; heaven; jesus; john; life; lord; man; men; new; people; read; study; things; think; time; word; years cache: 36655.txt plain text: 36655.txt item: #99 of 418 id: 36743 author: Anonymous title: The Child's Book About Moses date: None words: 1682 flesch: 79 summary: The Hebrews, at the command of God, and under the direction of Moses, left Egypt at last in great haste, and took their journey to the south-east. [Illustration] The Hebrews were now afraid of the Egyptians, and not believing in God as they should have done, they exclaimed against Moses for bringing them out of Egypt. keywords: child; god; moses cache: 36743.txt plain text: 36743.txt item: #100 of 418 id: 36767 author: Frothingham, Octavius Brooks title: The Cradle of the Christ: A Study in Primitive Christianity date: None words: 57117 flesch: 59 summary: The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin. Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God. keywords: belief; book; character; christ; christianity; christians; church; city; conception; death; doctrine; faith; father; form; god; gospel; heaven; hebrew; history; human; idea; israel; jerusalem; jesus; jews; judaism; kingdom; law; life; literature; lord; man; messiah; mind; national; nature; new; paul; people; place; point; power; religion; roman; rome; shall; son; spiritual; state; temple; testament; thought; time; way; world; years cache: 36767.txt plain text: 36767.txt item: #101 of 418 id: 36840 author: Campbell, R. J. (Reginald John) title: The Making of an Apostle date: None words: 15172 flesch: 71 summary: With the exception of the mother of Jesus, John the Baptist appears to have been the only person, who, at this particular time, was perfectly convinced, without a word from Jesus Himself, that the long-expected Messiah had appeared. The newly-appointed apostles were now sent forth on a preaching mission; their business was to herald the advent of Jesus Himself in the districts into which He was about to come. keywords: christ; god; jesus; john; life; luke; man; master; men; new; peter; self; service; simon; thou; time cache: 36840.txt plain text: 36840.txt item: #102 of 418 id: 36857 author: Gaebelein, Arno Clemens title: The Prophet Ezekiel: An Analytical Exposition date: None words: 122300 flesch: 80 summary: Then said I, Ah, Lord God! Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah, Lord God! keywords: chapter; city; come; coming; cubits; day; days; earth; east; egypt; ezekiel; fall; fire; gate; glory; great; hand; hast; hath; holy; house; israel; jehovah; jerusalem; judgment; king; land; like; lord god; lord jehovah; lord jesus; man; message; midst; nations; new; people; people israel; place; prince; prophet; saith; set; son; spirit; temple; thee; thou; thy; time; verses; vision; way; wicked; word cache: 36857.txt plain text: 36857.txt item: #103 of 418 id: 36956 author: Soares, Theodore Gerald title: Heroes of Israel Text of the Hero Stories with Notes and Questions for Young Students date: None words: 90336 flesch: 89 summary: So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they anointed David king over Israel. It is a most pitiful thing when great men are jealous. keywords: abraham; david; day; egypt; elijah; father; god; good; hand; hast; hath; house; israel; jacob; jonathan; joseph; king; land; lord; lord thy; man; men; moses; pass; people; pharaoh; philistines; place; saul; saying; servant; shall; son; story; thee; thou; thy; time; unto cache: 36956.txt plain text: 36956.txt item: #104 of 418 id: 37345 author: Maclaren, Alexander title: The Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. Paul to the Colossians and Philemon date: None words: 144144 flesch: 72 summary: We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have toward all the saints, because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel, which is come unto you; even as it is also in all the world bearing fruit and increasing, as it doth in you also, since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth; even as ye learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf, who also declared to us your love in the Spirit. The love which is to knit Christian men together is not merely love to one another, but is common love to Jesus Christ. keywords: apostle; body; change; character; christ; christian; christianity; church; cross; day; death; divine; duty; end; epistle; evil; faith; father; flesh; god; good; gospel; grace; great; hand; heart; hope; jesus christ; knowledge; law; letter; life; light; little; lives; lord; love; man; master; meaning; means; men; nature; need; order; paul; peace; philemon; power; prayer; present; rev; self; sense; set; sin; soul; spirit; teaching; things; thought; truth; union; way; wisdom; words; work; world cache: 37345.txt plain text: 37345.txt item: #105 of 418 id: 37564 author: Unknown title: Christ Going Up to Heaven No. 47 date: None words: 1325 flesch: 96 summary: Jesus, the Son of God, is in heaven; he is sitting on the throne of God his Father. O Merciful Lord, pardon my sins, Because Jesus Christ, thy dear Son, Died upon the cross for sinners. keywords: heaven; jesus cache: 37564.txt plain text: 37564.txt item: #106 of 418 id: 37611 author: Mortimer, Favell Lee title: Christ in the Storm No. 26 date: None words: 1080 flesch: 99 summary: O Merciful Lord, pardon my sins, Because Jesus Christ, thy dear Son, Died upon the cross for sinners. It is Jesus, the Son of God. keywords: jesus; thou cache: 37611.txt plain text: 37611.txt item: #107 of 418 id: 37915 author: Mackintosh, Charles Henry title: Notes on the Book of Genesis date: None words: 95747 flesch: 79 summary: [5] My reader will observe the change in the second chapter from the expression God to Lord God. And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face; and, lo, God hath showed me also thy seed. keywords: abraham; chapter; character; christ; church; day; death; divine; earth; faith; father; glory; god; grace; hand; heart; heaven; holy; jacob; judgment; know; life; lord god; love; man; nature; perfect; place; power; present; shall; sin; son; soul; spirit; thee; thing; thou; truth; unto; way; world cache: 37915.txt plain text: 37915.txt item: #108 of 418 id: 38102 author: Annet, Peter title: Critical Examination of the Life of St. Paul date: None words: 30816 flesch: 59 summary: St. Paul believed nothing of them at first, he was a zealous persecutor of the first Christians to such a degree, that, according to the Christians, nothing short of a new miracle, performed for him alone, was able to convert him; which proves to us that there was, at least, a time when St. Paul did not give any credit to the wonders that the partisans of Jesus related at Jerusalem. But St. Paul to give, without doubt, more lustre to his ministry, and his adherents after him, willing to extol the holiness of their religion, made a God of Jesus, a dogma which it is no more permitted to doubt, especially since the partizans of Paul have become more numerous, and stronger than those of St. Peter and the other Nazarenes, or Jewish founders of primitive Christianity, which thus totally changed its face as to its capital dogmas. keywords: acts; apostles; christians; church; conduct; fact; faith; gentiles; ghost; god; holy; jesus; jews; law; man; men; miracles; paul; peter; reason; religion; time cache: 38102.txt plain text: 38102.txt item: #109 of 418 id: 38147 author: Allies, T. W. (Thomas William) title: St. Peter, His Name and His Office, as Set Forth in Holy Scripture date: None words: 98605 flesch: 72 summary: And I, too, say unto thee_, in return for what thou hast said to Me, and to shew, like My Father, My good will towards thee, and what I say, as the Almighty Word of the Father, by My power I fulfil, _that thou art Peter_, the Rock, and so partaker with Me of that honour whereby I am the chief Rock and Foundation; _and upon this Rock_, which I have called thee, _I will build My Church_, which, therefore, with Me for its architect, shall rest on thee, to thee adhere, and from thee derive its conspicuous unity: _and the gates of hell_, even all the powers of the enemy, _shall not prevail against it_, nor take that, which, by My Godhead, is established upon thee, but rather yield to it the victory. First, then, all these texts are in the most marked manner circumscribed to Peter _alone_. keywords: acts; apostles; authority; body; brethren; catholic; christ; church; dignity; disciples; divine; faith; father; force; god; head; heaven; holy; john; kingdom; lord; luke; man; paul; peter; power; primacy; rest; rock; s. peter; set; simon; spirit; supreme; thee; things; thou; thy; truth; unity; universal; words; world cache: 38147.txt plain text: 38147.txt item: #110 of 418 id: 38376 author: Reber, George title: The Christ of Paul; Or, The Enigmas of Christianity date: None words: 75507 flesch: 73 summary: It set forth some of the most astounding events in the history of the world, and which the world heard of for the _first time_. The church at Rome, founded by such great lights as Peter and Paul, Irenæus continues, should be regarded of the highest authority in the church, for, he says, it is a matter of necessity that every church should agree with _this_ church, on account of its pre-eminent authority, that is, the faithful everywhere, inasmuch as the apostolical tradition has been preserved continuously by those faithful men who exist everywhere. keywords: a.d; apostles; asia; bishop; book; century; chap; christ; christianity; christians; church; day; death; father; fourth; god; gospel; history; jerusalem; jesus; jews; john; life; lord; man; mark; matthew; men; paul; people; peter; place; rome; second; son; spirit; subject; things; time; world; years cache: 38376.txt plain text: 38376.txt item: #111 of 418 id: 38557 author: Ross, Mary, Lady title: "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) The New Testament, with a Sketch of the Subsequent History of the Jews. date: None words: 195852 flesch: 65 summary: And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, preaching the Gospel no doubt, though we hear nothing as to their success, they went to Thessalonica, an important city of Macedonia, and one in which many Jews resided; for there was a synagogue there. keywords: apostles; chief; children; christians; church; city; country; day; death; disciples; faith; god; good; gospel; great; having; herod; holy; jerusalem; jesus; jesus christ; jews; john; king; law; life; lord; lord god; lord jesus; love; man; men; messiah; moses; paul; people; peter; place; power; religion; roman; rome; saying; sin; son; spake; spirit; temple; thee; things; thou; time; way; words; work; years cache: 38557.txt plain text: 38557.txt item: #112 of 418 id: 38721 author: Vine, W.E. (William Edwy) title: The Roman Empire in the Light of Prophecy The Rise, Progress, and End of the Fourth World-empire date: None words: 21598 flesch: 66 summary: PAGE Adrian, 62 Alaric, 37, 38 Alexander the Great, 19 Alliance of Social Democracy, 71, 63 Alsace and Lorraine, 66 Antichrist, 85, 87, 91, 96 Antiochus Epiphanes, 20, 21, 64 Antiochus the Great, 19 Armageddon, 93 Attila, 39, 40 Babylon, 73 Bagdad, 46, 47 Balkan Peninsula, 46, 53 Barnabas, Epistle of 32 Beast, Twofold Symbolism of, 35, 36 Britain, 23, 39, 53, 62 British Empire, 67, 68 Bulgaria, 53 Byzantine Empire, 46, 57 Cæsar Augustus, 14, 22, 25, 37 Carthage, 16, 17, 18, 40 Chaldean Empire, 12, 55, 60 Charlemagne, 58, 60 Christendom, Reunion of, 80 Commercial System, 87 Comparisons of Symbols in Daniel and Revelation, 29 Constantine, 26 Constantinople, 26, 27, 40, 44, 45, 46, 58 Crimean War, 52 Crusades, 47 Cyprus, 53 Cyril, 33 Democracy, 75, 76 Diocletian, 26 Early Christian Writers, 32-34 Eastern Half of Empire Overthrown, 44 European Federation, 69 False Prophet, 84 Genseric, 39, 40 German Influence, 53 Germanic Tribes, 37-41, 56 Grecian Empire, 19, 63, 65 Grecian Empire Divided, 64 Greece, 19, 20, 52, 53, 65 Hannibal, 18 Hippolytus, 33 Hungary, 40, 49, 52, 66 Huns, 39 International Working Men's Association, 71 Ireland, 67 Irenæus, 32 Iron and Clay, 25, 74 Jerome, 33 Jews, 22, 54, 55, 56, 62, 68 Judæa Subdued by Romans, 23 Julius Cæsar, 22 Justinian, 58 Khaliphs, 45, 47 Kosovo, Battle of, 49 Lactantius, 33 Magnesia, Battle of, 19 Man of Sin, 85, 100 Medes and Persians, 13, 55, 60 Megiddo, 94 Mithradates, 21 Mohammed, 45, 46 Mohammed II., 49 Napoleon, 72 Navarino, Battle of, 52 Nebuchadnezzar, 9, 11, 75, 96 Northern Limits of Empire, 41 Odoacer, 41 Omar, 45 Osman, 48 Ottoman Empire, 48 Palestine, 20, 21, 54, 56 Papacy, 79 Parousia, The Epiphany of, 97 Psalm 29, 102 Pydna, Battle of, 20, 21 Roman Emperor, The Final, 67, 68, 77, 82, 89 Roman Empire--Decline of, 51 Extended in Final Form, 60 Final Destruction of, 30, 32, 60, 96 Still in Power at Close of Present Age, 14, 30, 56 Tenfold Division of, 27-34 Twofold Division of, 35 Roman Influence Continued, 56-58 Roumania, 52, 53 San Stefano Treaty, 53 Saracens, 45, 47, 55, 63 Scotland, 67 Sea Symbolic of National Unrest, 72 Serbia, 52, 53 Seventy Weeks, 88 Slavery Under the Romans, 23 Spiritism, 84 Superman, 83 Ten Kingdoms Foretold, 27-34 Not Formed in West, 42 Tertullian, 33 Theodoret, 34 Times and Seasons, 10 Titus, 40, 89 Tongrol Bek, 47 Trajan, 23 Trentino, 66 Tribulation, The, 92 Tripoli, 53 Turkish Empire, 44 Turkish Empire, Downfall of, 63 Turks, 46, 55, 63 Turks and Mohammedanism, 47, 50 United States, 67, 76 Valens, 26 Vandals, 38, 40 Valentinian, 26, 37 Voice of the Lord, The, 98, 101 Western Half of Empire Overthrown, 37-41 Winepress, The, 99, 104 Zama, Battle of, 18 Demy 8vo, 308 pages clear type, strong dark cloth, gold title, 4/ net (4/6, or $1.12, post free). The mediæval and modern history of the lands originally constituting the Roman Empire is a history of the formation of independent states in such a way as to point to the eventual revival of the Empire in the tenfold division we have been considering. keywords: authority; beast; century; chapter; coming; daniel; eastern; emperor; empire; fourth; god; government; kingdom; kings; lord; nations; north; power; present; roman; street; time; war; world cache: 38721.txt plain text: 38721.txt item: #113 of 418 id: 39014 author: Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman title: Outline Studies in the Old Testament for Bible Teachers date: None words: 39488 flesch: 89 summary: giv. la. fir. fru. wil. liv. huts. keywords: bible; captivity; empire; exod; e´gypt; gen; god; history; is´ra; ites; jews; ju´dah; kingdom; kings; land; mon; new; outline; pal´es; people; period; place; sam; sea; sol´o; syr´i; temple; testament; time; tine; tribes; world; years; | | cache: 39014.txt plain text: 39014.txt item: #114 of 418 id: 39282 author: Willard, J. H. (James Hartwell) title: The Adopted Son: The Story of Moses date: None words: 4501 flesch: 80 summary: From Rephidim the Israelites passed into the desert of Sinai and from the top of Mount Sinai God gave Moses a message for them. Understanding that it was the Voice of God, Moses answered, Here am I. keywords: god; israelites; land; moses; people; pharaoh cache: 39282.txt plain text: 39282.txt item: #115 of 418 id: 39288 author: Bacon, Benjamin Wisner title: The Making of the New Testament date: None words: 59436 flesch: 62 summary: He will see as the two great divisions of his subject, (1) the gospel _of_ Jesus, represented, as we are told, in the first beginnings of literary development by an Aramaic compilation of the Precepts of the Lord by the Apostle Matthew, circulating possibly even before the great Pauline Epistles among the Palestinian churches; (2) the gospel _about_ Jesus, interpreting the significance of His person and work as the culmination of redemption through the indwelling of God in men and among men belongs as much to the essence of Christianity as the gospel of love and faith proclaimed _by_ Jesus. keywords: 1st; 2nd; acts; apostle; apostolic; authority; christ; church; churches; doctrine; epistles; fact; faith; god; gospel; james; jerusalem; jesus; jewish; john; law; life; lord; luke; mark; matthew; new; paul; pauline; peter; resurrection; rome; second; son; spirit; story; time; tradition; work; world; writings cache: 39288.txt plain text: 39288.txt item: #116 of 418 id: 39394 author: Blaikie, William Garden title: The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel date: None words: 134406 flesch: 73 summary: When I am confronted with a great trial, I rally all my resources to bear it, I realize the presence of God, I say, Thou God seest me; but when it is a little trial, I am apt to meet it unarmed and unguarded, and I experience a humiliating fall. He was the first of a succession of prophets whom God placed side by side with the kings and priests of Israel to supply that fresh moral and spiritual force which the prevailing worldliness of the one and formalism of the other rendered so necessary for the great ends for which Israel was chosen. keywords: ark; battle; case; chapter; character; christ; david; day; days; death; divine; eli; evil; faith; father; feeling; god; good; hand; heart; history; holy; honour; house; israel; jonathan; king; kingdom; know; life; lord; lord god; man; men; mind; nation; people; philistines; place; power; prayer; purpose; samuel; saul; sense; service; shall; sin; son; sons; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; thy god; time; truth; way; words; work; world cache: 39394.txt plain text: 39394.txt item: #117 of 418 id: 39395 author: Dods, Marcus title: The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis date: None words: 136603 flesch: 63 summary: That is the true seal of our fellowship with God; the earnest of the Spirit which gives promise of eternal union with the Holy One; the relentings, the shame, the softening of heart, the adoration and reverence for the holiness of God, the thirst for Him, the joy in His goodness, these are the first fruits of the Spirit, which lead on to our calling God Father, and feeling that to be alone with Him is our happiness. But if any one wishes to know what connection the world has with God, if he seeks to trace back all that now is to the very fountain-head of life, if he desires to discover some unifying principle, some illuminating purpose in the history of this earth, then we confidently refer him to these and the subsequent chapters of Scripture as his safest, and indeed his only, guide to the information he seeks. keywords: abraham; abram; blessing; character; christ; conscience; country; day; doubt; earth; egypt; esau; evil; experience; faith; family; father; feeling; future; god; good; hand; heart; history; isaac; jacob; joseph; kind; knowledge; land; life; life god; lord; lot; love; man; means; men; mind; nature; need; new; people; place; present; promise; purpose; sacrifice; self; sin; son; spirit; spiritual; things; thought; time; truth; use; way; work; world; years cache: 39395.txt plain text: 39395.txt item: #118 of 418 id: 39431 author: Pollard, Josephine title: Young Folks' Bible in Words of Easy Reading The Sweet Stories of God's Word in the Language of Childhood date: None words: 80866 flesch: 98 summary: And let us make a name, so that when we go from this place it will be known what great men were here, and what great deeds they could do. And the Lord told Jo-nah to go to Nin-e-veh, a large town where there was great need of good men. keywords: child; day; gave; god; good; house; illustration; jews; king; land; life; lord; man; men; place; sam; saul; son; sus; thee; thou; thy; time; vid; way cache: 39431.txt plain text: 39431.txt item: #119 of 418 id: 39509 author: Webb, James Morris title: The Black Man, the Father of Civilization, Proven by Biblical History date: None words: 9465 flesch: 66 summary: The all important question now arises, Were the Egyptians descendants of black men, or were they descendants of white men? These same Sidonians are the men descended from black men whom Solomon ordered Hiram of Tyre to engage to do the skilled hewing and designing of the timber work on Solomon's temple--Solomon declaring that these Sidonians, black men were the only men possessed with anywhere near sufficient skill to take charge of and successfully complete the artistic timber work on His Solomon's temple. keywords: africa; bible; chapter; civilization; egypt; egyptians; father; god; ham; man; men; negro; power; race; verse; world cache: 39509.txt plain text: 39509.txt item: #120 of 418 id: 39546 author: Shutter, Marion D. (Marion Daniel) title: Wit and Humor of the Bible: A Literary Study date: None words: 37265 flesch: 78 summary: There may have been other men whose life was 'without fear and without reproach'; but their history is unknown to us; their portrait is hardly more than a name. Bring my chair of state! There are other characters, such as the shrewd laborer who, digging in a field, finds a hidden treasure and secreting it goes and buys the field; the unjust judge who finally, completely tired out, gives way in no very amiable mood to the widow's unceasing petitions for justice; the timid soul, who, fearing to use his talent, hid it in a napkin and buried it in the earth; the self-righteous Pharisee who recounts his good deeds before the Lord of the Temple and complacently congratulates himself that he is not as other men! keywords: away; bible; book; david; day; fool; god; good; hand; hath; heart; house; humor; israel; jesus; king; life; literature; lord; man; men; nature; paul; people; pharisees; poor; saying; son; thee; things; thou; time; use; way; wisdom; wit; words; work; world cache: 39546.txt plain text: 39546.txt item: #121 of 418 id: 39727 author: Watson, Robert A. (Robert Alexander) title: The Expositor's Bible: Judges and Ruth date: None words: 127310 flesch: 73 summary: As well might we hope, retaining our personality, to become other men than we are. For one thing, Gideon cannot trace the connection between the Most High and himself, between the Power that controls the world and the power that dwells in his own will or the hearts of other men. keywords: age; baal; battle; character; chief; christ; christian; church; country; day; deborah; divine; doubt; duty; end; evil; faith; gideon; god; good; hand; heart; hebrew; history; hope; human; israel; jehovah; judges; justice; kind; king; land; law; life; lord; love; man; men; mind; naomi; nation; nature; need; new; order; people; philistines; place; power; purpose; race; religion; right; samson; self; sense; soul; spiritual; strength; thing; thought; time; tribes; truth; war; way; woman; work; world; worship cache: 39727.txt plain text: 39727.txt item: #122 of 418 id: 398 author: Platt, Rutherford Hayes title: The First Book of Adam and Eve date: None words: 34790 flesch: 92 summary: 1 After this Satan, the hater of all good, took the form of an angel, and with him two others, so that they looked like the three angels who had brought to Adam gold, incense, and myrrh. And on you, O Adam, while in My garden and obedient to Me, did that bright light rest also. keywords: adam; cave; chapter; day; eve; fire; garden; god; o adam; o god; satan; water; word cache: 398.txt plain text: 398.txt item: #123 of 418 id: 39819 author: Ayres, S. G. (Samuel Gardiner) title: The Expositor's Bible: Index date: None words: 91935 flesch: 84 summary: ---- sources and mode of composition, Chronicles, 13-21. I. CHRONICLES II., 55, Jeremiah II., 45. I. CHRONICLES III., 5, Proverbs, 52. Historian of the book of, I. Kings, 30-38. I. KINGS I., 3, Song of Solomon, 4. I. KINGS II., 7, Luke, 76. I. KINGS III., 3, Deuteronomy, 123, 382. keywords: ---10; ---11; ---13; ---14; ---15; ---16; ---17; ---18; ---19; ---20; ---21; ---22; ---23; ---24; ---25; ---26; ---27; ---28; ---29; ---3; ---4; ---5; ---6; ---7; ---8; ---9; ---and; ---in; ---not; ---of; ---on; ---the; 107; acts i.; bible; book; christ; christian; chronicles; church; colossians; daniel; david; deuteronomy; ecclesiastes; ephesians; epistles; exodus; ezekiel; ezra; galatians; genesis; god; hebrews; history; i. corinthians; i. kings; i. samuel; iii; isaiah ii; israel; james; jeremiah i.; job; john epistles; john ii; joshua; judges; leviticus; life; luke; mark; matthew; new; numbers; paul; peter; philippians; prof; prophets ii; proverbs; psalms ii; revelation; romans; solomon; song; testament; thessalonians; work cache: 39819.txt plain text: 39819.txt item: #124 of 418 id: 39913 author: Cox, Samuel title: Expositor's Bible: The Book of Ecclesiastes date: None words: 82559 flesch: 73 summary: And when, as life passes on, we discover that it is the bad boy who often gets the plum-cake, and the good boy who goes to the rod; that bad men often have beautiful wives and large estates, while good men fail of both; when we find the knave rising to place and authority, and honest Goodchild in the workhouse or the _Gazette_, then there rise up in our hearts the very doubts and perplexities and eager painful questions which of old time troubled the Psalmist and the Prophet. No doubt there were then, as there are now, many men of business who were wise enough to take pleasure in all their labours, to cast their burden of care on Him in whose care stand both to-morrow and to-day; men to whom worship was a calming and strengthening communion with the Father of their spirits, and who advanced, through toil, to worthy or even noble ends. keywords: book; business; chap; chief; coheleth; conclusion; day; death; duty; earth; evil; god; good; hand; hath; heart; hebrew; hope; judgment; king; labour; law; life; love; man; men; new; order; people; place; pleasure; preacher; present; quest; sense; sidenote; solomon; soul; spirit; sun; things; thought; thy; time; vanity; ver; wealth; wisdom; words; work; world cache: 39913.txt plain text: 39913.txt item: #125 of 418 id: 40173 author: Moore, George Foot title: The Literature of the Old Testament date: None words: 65527 flesch: 64 summary: In time, as they came to attach the same authority to the Epistles and Gospels, and to call them, too, Scriptures (2 Pet. iii. 16), they distinguished the Christian writings as the Scriptures of the new dispensation, or, as they called it, the new covenant, from the Scriptures of the old covenant (2 Cor. iii. 6, 14), the Bible of the Jews. In his treatise on Christian Doctrine (ii. 8; written in A.D. 397) he includes among the canonical books of the Old Testament, Judith, Tobit, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Ecclesiasticus, and the Wisdom of Solomon; African provincial synods at Hippo (A.D. 393) and Carthage (A.D. 397) pronounced themselves in the same sense. keywords: age; author; b.c; bible; book; century; chapters; end; ezra; form; god; good; greek; hebrew; history; isaiah; israel; jehovah; jeremiah; jerusalem; jews; job; joshua; judah; kingdom; kings; law; literature; m.a; man; new; pentateuch; people; place; prophecies; prophets; psalms; religion; second; solomon; sources; stories; temple; testament; time; way; worship; years cache: 40173.txt plain text: 40173.txt item: #126 of 418 id: 40206 author: Wheeler, J. M. (Joseph Mazzini) title: Bible Studies: Essays on Phallic Worship and Other Curious Rites and Customs date: None words: 37270 flesch: 72 summary: In book xi., c. xiv., 16, Strabo says the Armenians pay particular reverence to Anaïtes. xii., c. iii., 36). keywords: ancient; ark; belief; bible; blood; christian; circumcision; custom; day; fig; find; god; holy; iii; israel; jahveh; jews; kings; law; life; lord; man; marriage; men; moses; people; place; priests; prophets; religion; sacrifice; samuel; saul; serpent; son; spirits; story; thou; thy; time; water; women; word; worship cache: 40206.txt plain text: 40206.txt item: #127 of 418 id: 40822 author: McAfee, Cleland Boyd title: The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of the Bible and Its Influence on Life and Literature date: None words: 64924 flesch: 74 summary: It cannot be too strongly urged that the two great pioneers of English Bible translation, Wiclif and Tindale, more than a century apart, were chiefly moved to their work by social conditions. But there is this to be said: as he grows more serious he falls more into Bible words. keywords: american; bible; book; church; day; england; english bible; english literature; fact; god; greek; hebrew; history; ideas; influence; james; james version; king; king james; language; life; literature; man; men; need; new; original; people; phrases; place; power; religion; scripture; sense; spirit; study; style; testament; things; thought; time; translation; use; version; way; word; work; writing; years cache: 40822.txt plain text: 40822.txt item: #128 of 418 id: 41115 author: Conway, Moncure Daniel title: Solomon and Solomonic Literature date: None words: 71515 flesch: 66 summary: At the feet of Solomon Jesus also was sitting, and he certainly did not call himself personally greater than Solomon. with this gravamen: Now King Solomon loved many foreign women besides the daughter of Pharaoh,--Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Zidonian, and Hittite women, nations concerning which Jahveh said to the children of Israel, Ye shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave to these in love. keywords: book; chapter; christ; david; day; death; deity; doubt; earth; epistle; evil; father; god; good; gospel; great; hath; heart; hebrews; holy; human; jahveh; jahvist; jesus; job; king; legend; life; lord; love; man; melchizedek; men; mother; new; paul; peace; people; power; proverbs; psalm; queen; solomon; solomonic; son; spirit; story; temple; thee; things; thou; thy; time; unto; verse; viii; wisdom; wise; woman; word; work; writer cache: 41115.txt plain text: 41115.txt item: #129 of 418 id: 41140 author: Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman title: Bible Atlas: A Manual of Biblical Geography and History date: None words: 93340 flesch: 81 summary: | | | | | CAMP OF | | S | FROM EZION-GEBER TO KADESH-BARNEA. +=============================+================+======+======+======+ | STATION. |IDENTIFICATION. keywords: + =; = +; = =; a.d; abraham; acts; afterward; asia; assyria; b.c; babylon; battle; beth; bible; canaan; capernaum; capital; christ; church; cities; city; conquest; country; david; dead; death; desert; early; east; eastern; egypt; empire; events; feet; galilee; gen; great; hebron; herod; history; i. =; iii; illustration; israel; israelites; jerusalem; jesus; jews; john; jordan; journey; judah; judges; king; kingdom; land; life; line; map; mediterranean; miles; ministry; minor; mount; mountains; names; near; new; north; northern; outline; page; palestine; paul; people; period; persian; place; plain; power; province; races; region; reign; return; review; river; roman; sam; saul; sea; second; solomon; south; southern; syria; temple; testament; time; tribes; valley; wady; wall; west; wilderness; world; years; | +; | |; | || cache: 41140.txt plain text: 41140.txt item: #130 of 418 id: 41381 author: Seelye, Edward Eli title: Bible Emblems date: None words: 41025 flesch: 76 summary: Professing Christians, the voice of God Almighty says, Ye are my witnesses, and there is no escape for you. Isolate it from God, who is far above it, turn away its thoughts from any rock higher than it, bid it look perpetually inward and never outward and upward, and you have doomed it to despair. keywords: altar; blood; christ; christian; covenant; day; faith; glory; god; grace; heaven; holy; incense; jesus; life; light; look; man; men; nature; people; power; presence; rock; soul; spirit; sun; temple; time; voice; way; world cache: 41381.txt plain text: 41381.txt item: #131 of 418 id: 41520 author: Hughes, Edwin Holt title: The Bible and Life date: None words: 51790 flesch: 75 summary: It presents the lives of bad men who were sometimes good, and of good men who were occasionally bad, and of other men who were quite steadily bad or good. Though the parchment of liberty was proclaimed by one man, it is a fact that it was dictated by many men. keywords: bible; book; christ; church; day; doctrine; father; form; god; good; heart; holy; home; jesus; law; lesson; life; lord; love; man; meaning; men; nature; new; pages; paul; people; place; power; purpose; revelation; self; son; sorrow; spirit; teaching; testament; time; truth; use; way; wealth; words; work; world; years cache: 41520.txt plain text: 41520.txt item: #132 of 418 id: 41602 author: Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman title: Outline Studies in the New Testament for Bible Teachers date: None words: 36848 flesch: 89 summary: (James 2. 23) Hence its name (Isa. 9. 1, 2; Matt. 4. 15, 16); and the contempt in which it was held at Jerusalem. keywords: acts; christ; church; events; galilee; gospel; jerusalem; jesus; jewish; jews; john; journey; life; luke; mark; matt; ministry; new; paul; people; period; place; sea; study; time; year cache: 41602.txt plain text: 41602.txt item: #133 of 418 id: 41893 author: Bennett, W. H. (William Henry) title: Expositor's Bible: The Book of Jeremiah, Chapters XXI.-LII. date: None words: 103109 flesch: 70 summary: Accordingly Nebuzaradan and all the king of Babylon's princes sent and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard, and committed him to Gedaliah ben Ahikam ben Shaphan, to take him to his house.[158] And Jeremiah dwelt among the people. In moments of hot indignation against the manifold sins of Judah Jeremiah might have announced with great vehemence that Judah should be made a reproach and a proverb; but when, as Obadiah tells us, the Edomites stood gazing with eager curiosity on the destruction of Jerusalem, and rejoiced and exulted in the distress of the Jews, and even laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity, and occupied the roads to catch fugitives and deliver them up to the Chaldeans,[229] then the patriotic fervour of the prophet broke out against Edom. keywords: babylon; baruch; ben; book; captivity; chaldean; chapter; church; city; covenant; days; death; divine; egypt; evil; god; great; hand; hath; heart; hebrew; history; house; isaiah; israel; jehoiakim; jehovah; jeremiah; jerusalem; jews; josiah; judah; judgment; king; land; left; life; man; men; moab; modern; national; nations; nebuchadnezzar; people; pharaoh; present; priests; princes; prophecies; prophecy; prophet; prophet jeremiah; religion; return; ruin; saith jehovah; set; sin; son; spirit; teaching; temple; thee; thou; thy; time; utterance; way; word; years; zedekiah; | | cache: 41893.txt plain text: 41893.txt item: #134 of 418 id: 41900 author: Gray, James M. (James Martin) title: How to Master the English Bible An Experience, a Method, a Result, an Illustration date: None words: 12980 flesch: 69 summary: I once listened to an earnest and cultivated young man delivering a lecture on Bible study, illustrated by a chart so long that when he unrolled and held one end of it above his head, as high as his arms could reach, the other curled up on the floor below the platform. One summer, while conducting a special course of Bible study in the Chicago Institute, he said to the writer: If this synthetic method of teaching the Bible is so desirable for and popular with our day classes, why would it not take equally well with the masses of the people on a large scale? keywords: bible; book; church; english bible; expository; god; method; people; preaching; reading; sidenote; spirit; study; time; way; word; work cache: 41900.txt plain text: 41900.txt item: #135 of 418 id: 42334 author: Kellogg, Samuel H. (Samuel Henry) title: The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Leviticus date: None words: 178414 flesch: 61 summary: Even of those who devoutly believe, as they were taught in their childhood, that, like all the other books contained in the Holy Scriptures, it is to be received throughout with unquestioning faith as the very Word of God, a large number will frankly own in a discouraged way that this is with them merely a matter of belief, which their personal experience in reading the book has for the most part failed to sustain; and that for them so to see through symbol and ritual as to get much spiritual profit from such reading has been quite impossible. Others, again, while sharing this feeling, also confess to a great difficulty which they feel in believing that many of the commands of this law can ever have been really given by inspiration from God. keywords: aaron; altar; atonement; blood; case; chapter; christ; come; consecration; covenant; day; days; death; fact; fire; flesh; food; god; great; guilt; hand; holiness; holy; house; israel; jehovah; land; law; life; like; lord; lord god; man; meal; moses; nature; new; offering; order; people; place; priest; reason; sacrifice; service; sin; sin offering; sins; sons; testament; things; thought; thy; time; ver; victim; words; work; year cache: 42334.txt plain text: 42334.txt item: #136 of 418 id: 42354 author: Dods, Marcus title: The Expositor's Bible: The First Epistle to the Corinthians date: None words: 111558 flesch: 68 summary: You are free men, supreme over all created things, for ye are Christ's, you belong to Him who rules all, and loves you as His own; and above Christ and His rule there is no adverse will that can rob you of any good, for as ye are Christ's, cherished by Him, so is Christ God's, and the supreme will that governs all, governs all in the interests of Christ. It was in Christ Paul first learned how great a thing human life is, and it was through Christ and His work Paul first came into fellowship with the true God. keywords: body; christ; christ god; christian; christianity; church; conscience; corinth; dead; death; fact; faith; gifts; glory; god; good; hath; human; jesus christ; knowledge; law; life; little; lord; love; man; means; men; mind; nature; need; paul; people; persons; place; power; present; resurrection; right; self; sin; spirit; spiritual; things; thought; time; truth; use; way; wisdom; woman; words; work; world cache: 42354.txt plain text: 42354.txt item: #137 of 418 id: 42964 author: Wood, J. G. (John George) title: Bible Animals; Being a Description of Every Living Creature Mentioned in the Scripture, from the Ape to the Coral. date: None words: 248190 flesch: 69 summary: The Porcupine is peculiarly fitted for living in dry and unwatered spots, as, like many other animals, of which our common rabbit is a familiar example, it can exist without water, obtaining the needful moisture from the succulent roots on which it feeds. Many other animals, specially the cat and the ibis, were deeply honoured among the ancient Egyptians, as we learn from their own monuments and from the works of the old historians. keywords: account; air; allusion; animal; appearance; bear; beasts; bible; bird; body; book; camel; case; cattle; character; colour; common; country; crocodile; custom; day; days; description; distance; dog; dogs; doubt; dove; eagle; earth; eggs; egypt; example; fact; feet; find; fish; flesh; food; form; general; goat; god; good; great; ground; habits; head; hebrew; horns; horse; illustration; ivory; jewish; jews; job; kind; king; land; life; lion; little; lord; man; manner; men; mention; mode; nature; nest; net; new; night; number; order; ostrich; owl; palestine; parts; passage; people; place; plentiful; power; present; prey; prophet; purpose; raven; reader; reference; rock; scripture; sea; second; serpent; sheep; signification; size; skin; solomon; species; spot; strength; tail; testament; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; use; version; vulture; water; way; white; wild; wings; word; writers; young cache: 42964.txt plain text: 42964.txt item: #138 of 418 id: 42984 author: Bentham, Jeremy title: Not Paul, But Jesus date: None words: 141752 flesch: 63 summary: _Partition Treaty_: _Paul_ for himself: _Peter_, _James_ and _John_ for the Apostles 228 1. _ For you yourselves, says he, know this perfectly; that is, in so far as they could know from _his telling_: this being, in this instance, the only source,--of that _delusion_, to which he gave the name of _knowledge_. keywords: account; acts; ananias; antioch; apostles; author; barnabas; brethren; case; chapter; character; christ; church; conversion; course; damascus; days; disciples; effect; elders; evidence; eyes; gentiles; god; gospel; hands; having; historian; history; information; james; jerusalem; jesus; jews; law; light; lord; man; matter; men; mention; miracle; nature; number; occasion; paul; person; peter; place; power; present; purpose; question; religion; section; sort; story; thee; things; thou; time; use; view; vision; visit; way; word; years cache: 42984.txt plain text: 42984.txt item: #139 of 418 id: 4319 author: Clontz, J. (Jerry) title: The Gospels in Four Part Harmony date: None words: 95113 flesch: 93 summary: Jesus Gives the Sop to Judas, who then goes out. 95.60 Jesus Gives the Sop to Judas, who then goes out. keywords: day; disciples; father; god; good; heaven; house; jerusalem; jesus; jews; john; kingdom; life; lord; man; men; mother; people; peter; pharisees; place; saying; son; spirit; things; time; world cache: 4319.txt plain text: 4319.txt item: #140 of 418 id: 43533 author: Boyd, James Oscar title: A Brief Bible History: A Survey of the Old and New Testaments date: None words: 48743 flesch: 75 summary: More than that: through the kindness of God man is put in a garden, and is ordered to dress it and to keep it. As Stephen was stoned, he called on Jesus, saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit, and then kneeling down he prayed for forgiveness of his enemies: Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. keywords: acts; book; christ; church; david; death; disciples; epistle; faith; god; gospel; israel; jerusalem; jesus; jews; john; king; kingdom; law; lesson; life; lord; lord jesus; man; men; moses; parallels; paul; people; peter; power; sin; spirit; time; way; world; years cache: 43533.txt plain text: 43533.txt item: #141 of 418 id: 43685 author: Machen, J. Gresham (John Gresham) title: The Literature and History of New Testament Times date: None words: 113068 flesch: 72 summary: Upon that marvelous act of God Paul bases the whole of his life work. About other things there was debate, but about the person of Christ Paul appears in harmony even with his opponents. keywords: acts; age; apostles; author; bible; book; christ; christian; christianity; church; cor; day; death; epistle; example; fact; faith; god; gospel; great; greek; history; holy; jerusalem; jesus; jesus christ; jews; john; language; law; lesson; life; lord; luke; man; means; paul; peter; place; power; roman; second; spirit; teaching; testament; things; time; way; work; world cache: 43685.txt plain text: 43685.txt item: #142 of 418 id: 45195 author: None title: The Bible for Young People date: None words: 260307 flesch: 81 summary: And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven: and he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart: who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day. And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. keywords: brethren; chapter; children; christ; city; come; david; day; days; earth; eat; egypt; evil; eyes; father; forth; good; hand; hast; hath; heart; heaven; house; israel; jacob; jerusalem; joseph; joshua; king; know; land; life; lord god; lord hath; lord jesus; lord king; lord spake; lord thy; man; men; moses; o lord; pass; people; pharaoh; place; saith; saul; saying; servants; set; shall; sidenote; son; sons; spirit; thee; thine; things; thou; thou god; thy god; time; unto; voice; water; way; word; years cache: 45195.txt plain text: 45195.txt item: #143 of 418 id: 45475 author: Mangasarian, M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) title: The Bible Unveiled date: None words: 79164 flesch: 77 summary: If I feel it in my heart were enough to prove anything true, other bibles would be as true as ours. But there are many bibles, because it is the differences that preserve, as well as distinguish, one book from another. keywords: adam; bible; book; bryan; catholic bible; children; christian; church; commandments; david; day; days; deity; earth; evil; father; god; gods; good; hand; heaven; holy; holy bible; human; israel; jehovah; jesus; jews; king; life; lord; lord god; man; men; moses; new; people; read; reason; religion; science; son; story; testament; text; thing; thou; thy; time; truth; way; woman; words; world; years cache: 45475.txt plain text: 45475.txt item: #144 of 418 id: 46165 author: Auchincloss, W. S. (William Stuart) title: The Book of Daniel Unlocked date: None words: 24246 flesch: 81 summary: men_ of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not the wise _ men_ of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation. 25. keywords: a.d; b.c; babylon; cyrus; daniel; days; end; god; heaven; interpretation; king; kingdom; lord; men; nebuchadnezzar; o king; people; set; shall; thee; thou; thy; time; years cache: 46165.txt plain text: 46165.txt item: #145 of 418 id: 46737 author: Remsburg, John E. (John Eleazer) title: The Bible: I. Authenticity II. Credibility III. Morality date: None words: 98003 flesch: 75 summary: From a work entitled The New Bible and Its Uses Prof. Andrew D. White, our present minister to Germany, in his Warfare of Science (vol. ii, p. 306), quotes the following in relation to John, which shows how rapidly the supposed authenticity of Bible books is disappearing before the investigations of the Higher Critics: In the period of thirty years ending in 1860, of the fifty great authorities in this line, four to one were in favor of the Johannine authorship.... The Hebrew names for these, as well as many other books of the Old Testament, are the initial words of the books. keywords: acts; ahaziah; author; authority; authorship; b.c; bible; books; canon; century; chapter; children; christian; church; claim; david; day; days; death; divine; earth; epistle; fathers; following; gen; god; gospel; great; history; human; iii; israel; jehoshaphat; jesus; jews; john; judah; kings; land; lord; luke; man; mark; matthew; moses; new; paul; pentateuch; people; peter; reign; revelation; second; solomon; son; teachings; testament; thou; thy; time; woman; words; work; years cache: 46737.txt plain text: 46737.txt item: #146 of 418 id: 46970 author: White, James Edson title: Best Stories from the Best Book: An Illustrated Bible Companion for the Home date: None words: 30533 flesch: 91 summary: The Lord was pleased with this offering, for it showed that Noah was still true to God, and had faith in Jesus Christ, the great Sacrifice for the sins of the world. God speaks to us through His Word, by His Spirit, and through nature. keywords: children; christ; cursive; day; earth; father; god; good; heaven; home; illustration; israel; jacob; jesus; lesson; lord; man; moses; people; time; work cache: 46970.txt plain text: 46970.txt item: #147 of 418 id: 48193 author: Luther, Martin title: Commentary on Genesis, Vol. 1: Luther on the Creation date: None words: 174920 flesch: 71 summary: Under the show of doing good, they wrest from men God and his Word. For it was the greatest display of grace, that even after the sin of Adam God was not silent, but spoke; and that too in many and plain words, with the intent of showing forth evidences of his fatherly mind toward sinners. keywords: abel; account; adam; body; brother; cain; christ; church; creation; creatures; day; death; divine; earth; eve; faith; fall; father; god; good; heaven; holy; hope; human; jehovah god; knowledge; let; life; light; like; lord god; luther; man; manner; means; men; moses; nature; original; paradise; passage; place; present; reason; satan; says; scriptures; seed; serpent; sin; spirit; state; things; thou; thy; time; tree; woman; word; work cache: 48193.txt plain text: 48193.txt item: #148 of 418 id: 48872 author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher title: Woman in Sacred History A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural, Historical, and Legendary Sources date: None words: 64443 flesch: 70 summary: Many women fall through the weakness of self-indulgent passion, many from love of luxury, many from vanity and pride, too many from the mere coercion of hard necessity; but among the sad, unblest crowd there is a class who are the victims of sovereign power to forgive sins and dispense favors. It illustrates quite as powerfully as a true story the lofty and heroic type of womanhood which was the result of the Mosaic institutions, and the reverence in which such women were held by the highest authorities of the nation. keywords: abraham; child; children; come; daughter; day; days; divine; family; father; god; hand; hath; heart; history; house; human; israel; jacob; jesus; king; life; lord; love; mary; men; miriam; moses; mother; nation; nature; people; power; sarah; self; sister; son; soul; spirit; story; thee; thou; thy; time; way; wife; woman; world; years cache: 48872.txt plain text: 48872.txt item: #149 of 418 id: 52146 author: Anonymous title: The Juvenile Bible: Being a brief concordance of the Holy Scriptures, in verse. Containing a summary of all the chapters in the books of the Old and New Testament, from Genesis to the Revelation, alphabetically arranged, and admirably adapted to the comprehension and retention of young readers. date: None words: 9833 flesch: 92 summary: At Nathan's word David repents, 52 Read Doeg's destiny, 53 Proves athiests fools: God sees and rules; 54 At Ziph betray'd is he. 55 Because of foes prays thrice a day, 56 At Gath in God doth trust; 57 His help doth crave 'gainst Saul in cave, 58 Dooms Judges when unjust. 6 With Israel God contends. keywords: bids; chapters; christ; david; doth; god; good; great; israel; jews; john; king; life; love; makes; man; men; paul; saul; sins; thy; wife cache: 52146.txt plain text: 52146.txt item: #150 of 418 id: 52232 author: Holliday, F. C. (Fernandez C.) title: A Bible Hand-Book date: None words: 167183 flesch: 91 summary: O Lord God, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might? 1 CHRON. Christ, as the Son of God, calls God Father, 51. keywords: acts; children; christ; cor; day; death; earth; evil; faith; father; flesh; glory; god; good; hand; hast; hath; heart; heaven; holy; house; iii; isaiah; israel; john; king; law; life; lord god; lord jesus; lord thy; love; man; matt; men; peace; people; prov; psalm; rom; saying; shall; sin; son; spirit; thee; things; thou; thy god; unto; world cache: 52232.txt plain text: 52232.txt item: #151 of 418 id: 54292 author: Widtsoe, Osborne J. P. title: What Jesus Taught date: None words: 73329 flesch: 80 summary: Said Jesus to Joseph Smith, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy might, mind, and strength; and in the name of Jesus Christ thou shalt serve Him. IV What Jesus Said of Himself Jesus's testimony to the woman of Samaria--The testimony of the people of Sychar--Jesus taught always that He is the Christ--The answer to John--The confessions at the trials of Jesus--And on the way to Emmaus--How shall we find out Christ? keywords: church; day; death; earth; evil; faith; father; ghost; god; good; gospel; great; heaven; holy; jesus; jesus christ; john; kingdom; law; life; lord; lord jesus; love; man; men; people; power; sidenote; son; spirit; things; thou; thy; time; world cache: 54292.txt plain text: 54292.txt item: #152 of 418 id: 54309 author: McKay, David O. (David Oman) title: Ancient Apostles date: None words: 56209 flesch: 79 summary: [Sidenote: Peter Sees His Lord.] Other women who came to the tomb that morning to render, as they thought, the last slight service to their Lord, were permitted also to see Him. [Sidenote: Peter Follows Jesus.] keywords: apostles; barnabas; christ; church; city; day; death; faith; god; gospel; holy; house; jerusalem; jesus; jews; john; lesson; life; lord; man; men; paul; people; peter; saul; savior; sidenote; simon; thee; thou; time; world; years cache: 54309.txt plain text: 54309.txt item: #153 of 418 id: 5656 author: None title: The Gospel of John for Readers date: None words: 18566 flesch: 92 summary: Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. keywords: father; god; hath; jesus; man; saith; thou; world cache: 5656.txt plain text: 5656.txt item: #154 of 418 id: 57318 author: Berick, F. H. (Francis H.) title: The Scriptures Able to Make Us Wise Unto Salvation Or the Bible a Sufficient Creed date: None words: 7999 flesch: 77 summary: Take heed unto thyself--or yourselves; see that the life of God remains, and the work of God prospers in thine own soul. There is nothing said about his joining the Church after he believed; from the fact that, _by obedience to God_, he already belonged to it. keywords: bible; christ; church; god; lord; man; men; time; truth; way; word cache: 57318.txt plain text: 57318.txt item: #155 of 418 id: 6356 author: None title: The Gospel of Matthew for Readers date: None words: 21410 flesch: 91 summary: Here we learn, through Jesus' teachings and actions, what we must keep of the old. The first chapter begins with the birth of Jesus rather than the geneological listing which can easily be found at the beginning of other editions. keywords: disciples; father; god; heaven; jesus; kingdom; lord; man; son; thee; thou; thy cache: 6356.txt plain text: 6356.txt item: #156 of 418 id: 6507 author: Wake, William title: The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Volume 1, Mary date: None words: 5348 flesch: 71 summary: THE blessed and ever glorious Virgin Mary, sprung from the royal race and family of David, was born in the city of Nazareth, and educated at Jerusalem, in the temple of the Lord. For he is the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and his throne is forever and ever. keywords: angel; forth; god; lord; man; mary; temple; virgin cache: 6507.txt plain text: 6507.txt item: #157 of 418 id: 6508 author: Wake, William title: The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Volume 2, the Protevanglion date: None words: 7440 flesch: 87 summary: CHAPTER X. 1 Joseph returns from building houses, finds the Virgin grown big, being six months gone with child, 2 is jealous and troubled, 8 reproaches her, 10 she affirms her innocence, 13 he leaves her, 16 determines to dismiss her privately, 17 is warned in a dream that Mary is with child by the Holy Ghost, 20 and glorifies God who had shewn him such favour. 14 Then the high-priest replied, Joseph, Fear the Lord thy God, and remember how God dealt with Dathan, Korah, and Abiram, how the earth opened and swallowed them up, because of their contradiction. keywords: god; israel; joseph; lord; mary; priest; thou cache: 6508.txt plain text: 6508.txt item: #158 of 418 id: 6509 author: Wake, William title: The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Volume 3, Infancy of Jesus Christ date: None words: 13601 flesch: 84 summary: I THOMAS, an Israelite, judged it necessary to make known to our brethren among the Gentiles, the actions and miracles of Christ in his childhood, which our Lord and God Jesus Christ wrought after his birth in Bethlehem in our country, at which I myself, was astonished; the beginning of which was as followeth. 19 Then said St. Mary, The mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ rest upon you; 20 And giving them a little of that water, with which she had washed the body of Jesus Christ, she bade them wash the diseased person with it, which when they had done, she was presently cured; keywords: boy; christ; god; jesus; joseph; lord; lord jesus; mary; mother; son; thou cache: 6509.txt plain text: 6509.txt item: #159 of 418 id: 6510 author: Wake, William title: The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Volume 4, Nicodemus date: None words: 14924 flesch: 80 summary: And so it appears, that Jesus whom we crucified, is Jesus Christ the Son of God, and true Almighty God. 28 Then Pilate said to the messenger, Take Jesus out, and by some means bring him in again. keywords: christ; death; god; jesus; jews; joseph; lord; pilate; thee; thou; thy cache: 6510.txt plain text: 6510.txt item: #160 of 418 id: 6511 author: Wake, William title: The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Volume 5, St. Paul date: None words: 10220 flesch: 78 summary: , Trifina took Thecla home with her, and they went to bed; and behold, the daughter of Trifina, who was dead, appeared to her mother, and said; Mother, let the young woman, Thecla, be reputed by you as your daughter in my stead; and desire her that she should pray for me, that I may be translated to a state of happiness. So that Thecla perceiving, she discoursed to no purpose, signing her whole body with the sign (of the cross), left the house and went to Daphne; and when she came there, she went to the cave, where she had found Paul with Onesiphorus, and fell down upon the ground; and wept before God. keywords: beasts; chapter; christ; city; god; governor; jesus; lord; paul; seneca; thamyris; thecla cache: 6511.txt plain text: 6511.txt item: #161 of 418 id: 6512 author: Wake, William title: The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Volume 6, Clement date: None words: 16488 flesch: 82 summary: THE Church of God which is at Rome, to the Church of God which is at Corinth, elect, sanctified by the will of God, through Jesus Christ our Lord: grace and peace from the Almighty God, by Jesus Christ, be multiplied unto you. 2 Brethren, the sudden and unexpected dangers and calamities that have fallen upon us, have, we fear, made us the more slow in our consideration of those things which you inquired of us: 3 As also of that wicked and detestable sedition, so unbecoming the elect of God, which a few headstrong and self-willed men have fomented to such a degree of madness, that your venerable and renowned name, so worthy of all men to be beloved, is greatly blasphemed thereby. keywords: chapter; christ; god; good; holy; jesus; lord; man; men; saith; thee; things; thou cache: 6512.txt plain text: 6512.txt item: #162 of 418 id: 6513 author: Wake, William title: The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Volume 7, Barnabas date: None words: 10563 flesch: 84 summary: Thou shalt communicate to thy neighbour of all thou hast; thou shalt not call anything thine own: for if ye partake of such things as are incorruptible, how much more should you do it in those that are corruptible? 15 Behold, how doth David and Isaiah call him Lord, and the Son of God. keywords: god; lord; moses; people; prophet; saith; things; thou; thy cache: 6513.txt plain text: 6513.txt item: #163 of 418 id: 6514 author: Wake, William title: The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Volume 8, Ignatius date: None words: 15492 flesch: 79 summary: 8 Exhorts them to unity; 13 by a due subjection to their bishop; IGNATIUS, who is also called Theophorus, to the church which is at Ephesus in Asia; most deservedly happy: being blessed through the greatness and fullness of God the Father, and predestinated before the world began; that it should be always unto an enduring and unchangeable glory; united and chosen through his true passion, according to the will of the Father, and Jesus Christ our God; all happiness, by Jesus Christ, and his undefiled grace. 2 I have heard of your name much beloved in God; which ye have very justly attained by a habit of righteousness, according to the faith and love which is in Jesus Christ our Saviour. keywords: bishop; christ; church; faith; father; god; jesus christ; lord; things cache: 6514.txt plain text: 6514.txt item: #164 of 418 id: 6515 author: Wake, William title: The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Volume 9, Hermas date: None words: 38582 flesch: 85 summary: For if thou shalt abstain from what is good, and not do it, thou shalt sin. Thou sawest also, said he, the six men, and in the middle of them that venerable great man, who walked about the tower, and rejected the stones out of the tower? 119 Sir, said I, I saw them. keywords: building; god; good; lord; man; men; sir; spirit; stones; thee; things; thou; thy; tower cache: 6515.txt plain text: 6515.txt item: #165 of 418 id: 6516 author: Wake, William title: The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Complete date: None words: 131733 flesch: 83 summary: I THOMAS, an Israelite, judged it necessary to make known to our brethren among the Gentiles, the actions and miracles of Christ in his childhood, which our Lord and God Jesus Christ wrought after his birth in Bethlehem in our country, at which I myself, was astonished; the beginning of which was as followeth. O Lord Jesus Christ, grant that the fire may not touch Thecla; but be her helper, for she is thy servant. keywords: building; chapter; christ; day; death; evil; faith; father; fear; forth; god; good; hath; holy; house; jesus christ; jews; joseph; life; lord; lord god; lord jesus; man; mary; men; paul; people; pilate; place; saying; sir; son; spirit; thecla; thee; things; thou; thy; time; tower; water; wherefore; world cache: 6516.txt plain text: 6516.txt item: #166 of 418 id: 6529 author: None title: The Gospel of Luke for Readers date: None words: 23219 flesch: 91 summary: The Pharisee stood and prayed, God, I thank thee that I am not like other men who are extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even publicans. In Jericho there was rich man named Zacchaeus, who was the head of the publicans. keywords: day; father; god; house; jesus; lord; man; people; son; thee; things; thou; thy cache: 6529.txt plain text: 6529.txt item: #167 of 418 id: 6530 author: None title: The Gospel of Mark for Readers date: None words: 13666 flesch: 91 summary: Jesus answered, Ye know not what ye ask. So that ye may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, (Jesus turned to the sick man and said,) I say to thee, Arise. keywords: disciples; god; jesus; man; people; son; thee; things; thou cache: 6530.txt plain text: 6530.txt item: #168 of 418 id: 6531 author: None title: All Four Gospels for Readers date: None words: 75789 flesch: 92 summary: When Mary saw Jesus, she fell down at His feet saying to Him, Lord, if you had been here my brother would not have died. Jesus answered, Ye know not what ye ask. keywords: cast; day; disciples; father; god; good; heaven; house; jesus; john; kingdom; lord; man; men; people; peter; saying; son; thee; things; thou; thy; world cache: 6531.txt plain text: 6531.txt item: #169 of 418 id: 7069 author: Maclaren, Alexander title: Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers date: None words: 233083 flesch: 76 summary: And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? 24) A CALM EVENING, PROMISING A BRIGHT MORNING (Genesis l. 14-26) JOSEPH'S FAITH (Genesis l. 25) A COFFIN IN EGYPT (Genesis l. 26) THE VISION OF CREATION 'And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. keywords: aaron; abraham; abram; altar; blood; brethren; character; children; christ; christian; covenant; day; days; death; desire; divine; earth; egypt; end; evil; eyes; fact; faith; father; fire; form; forth; future; god; good; great; hand; heart; heaven; hope; israel; jacob; jesus; joseph; know; land; law; lesson; life; light; like; lives; living; look; lord; lord god; love; man; meaning; means; men; moses; need; past; people; pharaoh; place; power; prayer; presence; present; promise; purpose; rest; revelation; sacrifice; self; sense; service; set; sin; son; soul; spirit; strength; thee; things; think; thou; thought; thy; thy god; time; truth; unto; way; words; work; world; years cache: 7069.txt plain text: 7069.txt item: #170 of 418 id: 7168 author: McFadyen, John Edgar title: Introduction to the Old Testament date: None words: 96694 flesch: 68 summary: Ch. ii. elaborates the idea, suggested by these chapters, of Israel's adultery, i.e. of her unfaithfulness to Jehovah, of the fate to which it will bring her, and of her redemption from that fate by the love of her God.[2] The date of his prophetic career may safely be set about 743-736 B.C. In chs. i. and iii. keywords: b.c; book; divine; doubt; e.g.; exilic; ezra; footnote; god; hebrew; history; iii; isaiah; israel; jehovah; jeremiah; jerusalem; job; judah; kings; land; later; life; man; people; period; prophecy; prophet; religion; section; story; temple; time; vii; viii; words; world; xii cache: 7168.txt plain text: 7168.txt item: #171 of 418 id: 7284 author: Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) title: The Chosen People: A Compendium of Sacred and Church History for School-Children date: None words: 64929 flesch: 79 summary: They were such great observers of the courses of the stars, that astronomy is said to have begun with them; but this was chiefly because they fancied that the heavenly bodies would help them to foretel coming events, for they put great faith in soothsayers. The Roman Church was spread over all Italy, Spain, France, and great part of Germany, and tried to force down all differences of opinion by cruel and bloody means, caring more for unity than for truth, and boasting of being the only Catholic Church, instead of only one branch of it. keywords: babylon; chief; children; christians; church; city; daniel; david; day; death; egypt; emperor; end; faith; father; god; good; great; greek; herod; holy; home; jerusalem; jews; king; land; lesson; lord; man; men; new; people; place; power; priest; prophecy; roman; rome; set; son; sons; temple; thought; time; way; work; years cache: 7284.txt plain text: 7284.txt item: #172 of 418 id: 7351 author: Maclaren, Alexander title: Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII date: None words: 248164 flesch: 75 summary: Another observation may be made as preliminary, and that is that Jesus Christ never tells people to cheer up without giving them reason to do so. Jesus Christ never thus vainly preaches the duty of encouraging ourselves without giving us ample reasons for the cheerfulness which He enjoins. keywords: answer; brethren; character; christ; christian; church; come; coming; cross; day; death; disciples; divine; earth; end; evil; eyes; fact; faith; father; form; glory; god; good; gospel; great; hand; hath; heart; heaven; human; jesus christ; john; joy; judgment; kingdom; know; law; life; light; lips; lives; look; lord; love; makes; man; master; means; men; moment; nature; need; new; order; people; place; point; power; question; reason; rest; saying; second; self; sense; set; shall; sin; sins; solemn; son; soul; spirit; teaching; tell; temple; text; thee; things; think; thou; thought; thy; time; truth; turn; way; words; work; world cache: 7351.txt plain text: 7351.txt item: #173 of 418 id: 7883 author: Maclaren, Alexander title: Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes date: None words: 265299 flesch: 75 summary: We should meditate, too, on the prerogatives and lofty offices to which Christ calls those who love Him; not to minister to self-complacency, as if we were so much better than other men, but to deepen our sense of responsibility, and stir us to strenuous efforts to be what we are called to be. God prepares His servants for their work by laying on their souls a sorrowful realisation of the miseries which other men regard, and they themselves have often regarded, very lightly. keywords: away; beginning; book; character; christ; christian; city; course; day; days; death; divine; doubt; duty; earth; end; evil; experience; eyes; faith; father; fear; find; future; god; good; hand; hath; heart; help; high; hope; house; human; israel; jehovah; jerusalem; jesus; joy; judah; king; law; life; lives; look; lord god; love; man; means; men; moment; nature; need; new; order; people; place; point; power; present; priests; proverbs; purpose; reason; religion; rest; right; round; self; sense; service; set; shall; sin; sins; son; sorrow; soul; spirit; strength; temple; testament; text; thee; things; things god; thou; thought; thy; time; trust; truth; turn; unto; verse; voice; way; ways; wisdom; words; work; world; worship; years cache: 7883.txt plain text: 7883.txt item: #174 of 418 id: 7925 author: Maclaren, Alexander title: Expositions of Holy Scripture: Psalms date: None words: 246981 flesch: 76 summary: And Peter, whom we have already found echoing this text, echoes that part of it too, for he says, 'Let them commit the keeping of their souls to Him in well doing, as _unto a faithful Creator_,' which is all but parallel to 'Lord God of Truth.' Lord God of hosts.' keywords: answer; blessedness; brethren; character; christ; christian; come; confidence; day; death; desire; divine; earth; end; evil; experience; face; fact; faith; father; fear; forth; future; glory; god; good; hand; hast; heart; heaven; help; hold; hope; house; jesus; joy; king; law; life; light; lives; living; look; lord; lord god; love; man; meaning; means; men; mercy; moment; nature; need; past; people; place; power; prayer; presence; present; psalmist; rest; righteousness; round; self; sense; set; sin; sins; sorrow; soul; spirit; stand; strength; strong; testament; text; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; trust; truth; voice; way; word; work cache: 7925.txt plain text: 7925.txt item: #175 of 418 id: 8001 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 1: Genesis date: None words: 40094 flesch: 93 summary: 01:020:005 Said he not unto me, She is my sister? And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son: keywords: abraham; begat; brethren; brother; day; earth; egypt; esau; father; god; hand; hath; house; isaac; jacob; joseph; land; lord; lord god; man; men; pharaoh; saying; son; sons; thee; thou; thy; unto; wife; years cache: 8001.txt plain text: 8001.txt item: #176 of 418 id: 8002 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 2: Exodus date: None words: 34013 flesch: 91 summary: And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty. And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about. 02:025:012 keywords: aaron; altar; children; day; egypt; god; gold; hand; israel; land; lord; lord god; lord thy; man; moses; people; pharaoh; tabernacle; thee; thou; thy; work cache: 8002.txt plain text: 8002.txt item: #177 of 418 id: 8003 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 3: Leviticus date: None words: 25511 flesch: 86 summary: And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering. And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar: keywords: aaron; altar; blood; fire; hath; holy; lord; man; moses; offering; priest; sin offering; thou; thy cache: 8003.txt plain text: 8003.txt item: #178 of 418 id: 8004 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 4: Numbers date: None words: 34271 flesch: 84 summary: And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel. And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared. keywords: aaron; children; congregation; day; families; family; israel; land; lord; lord spake; man; meat offering; moses; offering; people; priest; son; sons; tabernacle; thee; thou; tribe; unto cache: 8004.txt plain text: 8004.txt item: #179 of 418 id: 8005 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 5: Deuteronomy date: None words: 29392 flesch: 87 summary: If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three: 05:019:010 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee. But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. 05:020:015 keywords: children; day; days; egypt; fathers; hand; hath; heart; israel; land; lord god; lord thy; man; people; thee; thine; thou; thy god cache: 8005.txt plain text: 8005.txt item: #180 of 418 id: 8006 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 6: Joshua date: None words: 19555 flesch: 83 summary: And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced cities. And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families. keywords: border; children; cities; city; day; god; inheritance; israel; jordan; joshua; king; land; lord; moses; people; suburbs; tribe cache: 8006.txt plain text: 8006.txt item: #181 of 418 id: 8007 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 7: Judges date: None words: 19656 flesch: 90 summary: 07:008:018 Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor? But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? keywords: children; city; father; god; hand; house; israel; lord; man; men; people; son; thee; thou; unto cache: 8007.txt plain text: 8007.txt item: #182 of 418 id: 8008 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 8: Ruth date: None words: 2700 flesch: 91 summary: and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn. The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust. keywords: naomi; thee; thou cache: 8008.txt plain text: 8008.txt item: #183 of 418 id: 8009 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 9: 1 Samuel date: None words: 25991 flesch: 91 summary: And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee. 09:017:038 And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail. keywords: david; day; god; hand; hath; israel; king; lord; man; men; people; philistines; samuel; saul; son; thee; thou; thy; unto cache: 8009.txt plain text: 8009.txt item: #184 of 418 id: 8010 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 10: 2 Samuel date: None words: 21447 flesch: 90 summary: And Joram brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass: 10:008:011 Which also king David did dedicate unto the LORD, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued; 10:008:012 Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah. And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. keywords: absalom; david; god; house; israel; joab; king; king david; lord; man; men; people; saul; servants; son; thee; thou; thy; unto cache: 8010.txt plain text: 8010.txt item: #185 of 418 id: 8011 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 11: 1 Kings date: None words: 25438 flesch: 89 summary: The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon: 11:001:034 And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save king Solomon. keywords: david; father; god; house; israel; jeroboam; king; king solomon; lord; lord god; man; people; saying; shall; solomon; son; thee; thou; thy; unto; word cache: 8011.txt plain text: 8011.txt item: #186 of 418 id: 8012 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 12: 2 Kings date: None words: 24343 flesch: 90 summary: And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease? keywords: city; elisha; god; hand; house; israel; jerusalem; judah; king; land; lord; man; people; saying; son; thee; thou; thy cache: 8012.txt plain text: 8012.txt item: #187 of 418 id: 8013 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 13: 1 Chronicles date: None words: 21387 flesch: 86 summary: And Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim had sons; Haroeh, and half of the Manahethites. And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for they had many wives and sons. keywords: ark; begat; brethren; chief; children; david; dwelt; father; firstborn; god; hand; house; israel; joab; judah; king; levites; lord; lord god; men; people; philistines; saul; son; sons; suburbs; thee; thou; thy; tribe cache: 8013.txt plain text: 8013.txt item: #188 of 418 id: 8014 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 14: 2 Chronicles date: None words: 26979 flesch: 85 summary: And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD's house. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God; 14:004:012 To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars; 14:004:013 And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars. keywords: children; david; fathers; hand; house; israel; jerusalem; judah; king; levites; lord; lord god; men; people; priests; solomon; son; thee; thou; thy; years cache: 8014.txt plain text: 8014.txt item: #189 of 418 id: 8015 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 15: Ezra date: None words: 7764 flesch: 79 summary: Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore. All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children. keywords: children; god; house; israel; jerusalem; king; lord; people; priests; sons cache: 8015.txt plain text: 8015.txt item: #190 of 418 id: 8016 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 16: Nehemiah date: None words: 10934 flesch: 84 summary: 16:008:018 Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me. keywords: children; day; god; house; jerusalem; judah; king; levites; people; priests; son; thou; thy; wall cache: 8016.txt plain text: 8016.txt item: #191 of 418 id: 8017 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 17: Esther date: None words: 5909 flesch: 82 summary: And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? 17:010:003 For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed. Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite; 17:002:006 Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away. keywords: esther; haman; jews; king; mordecai; unto cache: 8017.txt plain text: 8017.txt item: #192 of 418 id: 8018 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 18: Job date: None words: 19248 flesch: 96 summary: 18:005:022 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth. 18:005:023 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee. keywords: almighty; days; earth; god; hand; hath; job; lord; man; men; mouth; thee; thine; thou; thy; wicked; words; yea cache: 8018.txt plain text: 8018.txt item: #193 of 418 id: 8019 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 19: Psalms date: None words: 45227 flesch: 94 summary: 19:030:010 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper. 19:004:008 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety. keywords: earth; enemies; fear; god; good; hand; hast; hath; heart; israel; lord god; man; men; mercy; mouth; o god; o lord; people; praise; righteousness; salvation; selah; soul; strength; thee; thine; thou; thy; thy god; wicked cache: 8019.txt plain text: 8019.txt item: #194 of 418 id: 8020 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 20: Proverbs date: None words: 16023 flesch: 92 summary: 20:010:014 Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. keywords: evil; good; hath; heart; knowledge; lips; lord; man; mouth; son; thee; thine; thou; understanding; way; wicked; wisdom cache: 8020.txt plain text: 8020.txt item: #195 of 418 id: 8021 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 21: Ecclesiastes date: None words: 5847 flesch: 90 summary: Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. 21:009:011 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. 21:009:012 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them. The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. keywords: god; hath; heart; man; time; vanity cache: 8021.txt plain text: 8021.txt item: #196 of 418 id: 8022 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 22: Song of Solomon date: None words: 2818 flesch: 94 summary: He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. 22:002:005 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. keywords: beloved; daughters; thee; thou; thy cache: 8022.txt plain text: 8022.txt item: #197 of 418 id: 8023 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 23: Isaiah date: None words: 38415 flesch: 88 summary: 23:026:008 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. keywords: day; earth; forth; glory; hand; hast; hath; holy; hosts; house; israel; jerusalem; king; land; lord; lord god; lord hath; lord thy; man; men; o lord; pass; people; righteousness; saith; thee; things; thou; thy; zion cache: 8023.txt plain text: 8023.txt item: #198 of 418 id: 8024 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 24: Jeremiah date: None words: 44140 flesch: 86 summary: 24:004:027 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end. Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of the LORD, 24:028:006 Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD's house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place. keywords: babylon; evil; hand; hath; hosts; house; israel; jeremiah; jerusalem; judah; king; land; lord; lord god; lord thy; man; men; o lord; people; saith; saying; son; thee; thou; thy; word cache: 8024.txt plain text: 8024.txt item: #199 of 418 id: 8025 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 25: Lamentations date: None words: 3599 flesch: 89 summary: Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed. The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries. keywords: daughter; hath; lord; thou; zion cache: 8025.txt plain text: 8025.txt item: #200 of 418 id: 8026 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 26: Ezekiel date: None words: 40745 flesch: 88 summary: And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it. Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity. keywords: cubits; day; gate; hand; hast; hath; house; israel; land; lord god; man; men; midst; people; round; saith; son; sword; thee; thine; thou; thy; way cache: 8026.txt plain text: 8026.txt item: #201 of 418 id: 8027 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 27: Daniel date: None words: 12020 flesch: 84 summary: In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god. 27:001:003 keywords: daniel; god; king; kingdom; men; nebuchadnezzar; o king; thee; thou; thy cache: 8027.txt plain text: 8027.txt item: #202 of 418 id: 8028 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 28: Hosea date: None words: 5403 flesch: 89 summary: 28:011:012 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints. 28:005:003 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled. keywords: ephraim; god; hath; israel; lord; thee; thy cache: 8028.txt plain text: 8028.txt item: #203 of 418 id: 8029 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 29: Joel date: None words: 2137 flesch: 85 summary: 29:002:017 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God? 29:001:013 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God. keywords: hath; lord; people cache: 8029.txt plain text: 8029.txt item: #204 of 418 id: 8030 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 30: Amos date: None words: 4397 flesch: 88 summary: Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! 30:003:013 Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts, 30:003:014 That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground. keywords: god; house; israel; lord; lord god; saith cache: 8030.txt plain text: 8030.txt item: #205 of 418 id: 8031 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 31: Obadiah date: None words: 721 flesch: 85 summary: If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes? 31:001:006 How are the things of Esau searched out! keywords: day; thou cache: 8031.txt plain text: 8031.txt item: #206 of 418 id: 8032 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 32: Jonah date: None words: 1402 flesch: 93 summary: And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live. And God said to Jonah, Doest thou keywords: jonah; lord cache: 8032.txt plain text: 8032.txt item: #207 of 418 id: 8033 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 33: Micah date: None words: 3290 flesch: 88 summary: 33:004:010 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies. 33:004:013 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth. keywords: lord; people; thee; thou; thy cache: 8033.txt plain text: 8033.txt item: #208 of 418 id: 8034 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 34: Nahum date: None words: 1362 flesch: 89 summary: There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts. The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses: keywords: lord; thee; thy cache: 8034.txt plain text: 8034.txt item: #209 of 418 id: 8035 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 35: Habakkuk date: None words: 1566 flesch: 89 summary: Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. 35:001:002 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! keywords: lord; thee; thou cache: 8035.txt plain text: 8035.txt item: #210 of 418 id: 8036 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 36: Zephaniah date: None words: 1704 flesch: 83 summary: 36:001:015 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, 36:001:016 36:002:014 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds; for he shall uncover the cedar work. keywords: day; lord; thee cache: 8036.txt plain text: 8036.txt item: #211 of 418 id: 8037 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 37: Haggai date: None words: 1202 flesch: 88 summary: In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying, 37:001:002 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD's house should be built. saith the LORD of hosts. keywords: lord; saith cache: 8037.txt plain text: 8037.txt item: #212 of 418 id: 8038 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 38: Zechariah date: None words: 6688 flesch: 89 summary: For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her. Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years? keywords: angel; day; hosts; house; jerusalem; lord; saith cache: 8038.txt plain text: 8038.txt item: #213 of 418 id: 8039 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 39: Malachi date: None words: 1869 flesch: 91 summary: If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart. And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts. keywords: hosts; lord cache: 8039.txt plain text: 8039.txt item: #214 of 418 id: 8040 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 40: Matthew date: None words: 24833 flesch: 91 summary: When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? 40:016:014 And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men: keywords: begat; day; disciples; father; god; good; hath; heaven; jesus; kingdom; lord; man; men; saith; saying; son; thee; things; thou; thy cache: 8040.txt plain text: 8040.txt item: #215 of 418 id: 8041 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 41: Mark date: None words: 15903 flesch: 93 summary: For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day. And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. keywords: cast; disciples; god; hath; house; jesus; john; man; saith; saying; son; thee; things; thou cache: 8041.txt plain text: 8041.txt item: #216 of 418 id: 8042 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 42: Luke date: None words: 27178 flesch: 93 summary: And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; 42:018:002 Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen; 42:019:038 Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest. 42:019:039 keywords: city; day; days; disciples; father; god; good; hath; house; jerusalem; jesus; kingdom; lord; man; men; people; saying; son; spake; thee; things; thou; thy cache: 8042.txt plain text: 8042.txt item: #217 of 418 id: 8043 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 43: John date: None words: 20051 flesch: 93 summary: 43:011:040 Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? 43:011:041 43:002:004 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? keywords: come; disciples; father; god; hath; jesus; jesus saith; jews; man; saith; son; things; thou; world cache: 8043.txt plain text: 8043.txt item: #218 of 418 id: 8044 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 44: Acts date: None words: 25326 flesch: 89 summary: And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him, 44:011:003 Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them. And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. keywords: brethren; city; day; days; ghost; god; hath; holy; jerusalem; jesus; jews; lord; man; men; paul; people; peter; saying; thee; things; thou cache: 8044.txt plain text: 8044.txt item: #219 of 418 id: 8045 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 45: Romans date: None words: 9904 flesch: 88 summary: Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 45:001:025 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Book 45 Romans 45:001:001 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, 45:001:002 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) keywords: christ; faith; god; jesus; law; lord; man; righteousness; sin; thou cache: 8045.txt plain text: 8045.txt item: #220 of 418 id: 8046 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 46: 1 Corinthians date: None words: 9968 flesch: 92 summary: I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. 46:008:004 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. keywords: body; christ; god; jesus; lord; man; spirit; things; world cache: 8046.txt plain text: 8046.txt item: #221 of 418 id: 8047 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 47: 2 Corinthians date: None words: 6370 flesch: 86 summary: Book 47 2 Corinthians 47:001:001 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia: 47:001:002 Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. keywords: christ; glory; god; hath; lord; things cache: 8047.txt plain text: 8047.txt item: #222 of 418 id: 8048 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 48: Galatians date: None words: 3273 flesch: 88 summary: We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 48:002:016 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. Book 48 Galatians 48:001:001 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) 48:001:002 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia: 48:001:003 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, 48:001:004 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: 48:001:005 keywords: christ; god; law cache: 8048.txt plain text: 8048.txt item: #223 of 418 id: 8049 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 49: Ephesians date: None words: 3210 flesch: 81 summary: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. 49:001:003 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: keywords: christ; god; jesus; lord cache: 8049.txt plain text: 8049.txt item: #224 of 418 id: 8050 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 50: Philippians date: None words: 2319 flesch: 85 summary: Book 50 Philippians 50:001:001 Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, 50:001:020 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. keywords: christ; things cache: 8050.txt plain text: 8050.txt item: #225 of 418 id: 8051 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 51: Colossians date: None words: 2106 flesch: 79 summary: 51:001:003 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, 51:001:004 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints, 51:001:005 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; 51:001:006 Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth: 51:001:007 As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ; Book 51 Colossians 51:001:001 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, 51:001:002 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. keywords: christ; god; things cache: 8051.txt plain text: 8051.txt item: #226 of 418 id: 8052 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 52: 1 Thessalonians date: None words: 1959 flesch: 87 summary: 52:002:014 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: 52:002:015 Book 52 1 Thessalonians 52:001:001 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. keywords: god; lord cache: 8052.txt plain text: 8052.txt item: #227 of 418 id: 8053 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 53: 2 Thessalonians date: None words: 1101 flesch: 85 summary: In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 53:001:009 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; 53:001:010 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: 53:002:014 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. keywords: god; lord cache: 8053.txt plain text: 8053.txt item: #228 of 418 id: 8054 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 54: 1 Timothy date: None words: 2392 flesch: 79 summary: 54:004:006 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained. 54:005:010 Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work. keywords: christ; faith; god; good cache: 8054.txt plain text: 8054.txt item: #229 of 418 id: 8055 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 55: 2 Timothy date: None words: 1784 flesch: 83 summary: Book 55 2 Timothy 55:001:001 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, 55:001:002 To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 55:001:008 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; 55:001:009 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, 55:001:010 keywords: christ; jesus; lord; thou cache: 8055.txt plain text: 8055.txt item: #230 of 418 id: 8056 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 56: Titus date: None words: 977 flesch: 77 summary: The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; 56:002:004 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, 56:002:005 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. keywords: god; things cache: 8056.txt plain text: 8056.txt item: #231 of 418 id: 8057 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 57: Philemon date: None words: 486 flesch: 79 summary: 57:001:004 I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers, 57:001:005 Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints; 57:001:006 That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus. that which is convenient, 57:001:009 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. keywords: thee cache: 8057.txt plain text: 8057.txt item: #232 of 418 id: 8058 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 58: Hebrews date: None words: 7238 flesch: 84 summary: To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 58:012:024 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things that that of Abel. Book 58 Hebrews 58:001:001 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 58:001:002 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 58:001:003 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high: 58:001:004 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. keywords: blood; faith; god; hath; man; priest; things; thou cache: 8058.txt plain text: 8058.txt item: #233 of 418 id: 8059 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 59: James date: None words: 2445 flesch: 92 summary: Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. keywords: faith; god; lord; man cache: 8059.txt plain text: 8059.txt item: #234 of 418 id: 8060 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 60: 1 Peter date: None words: 2616 flesch: 79 summary: Book 60 1 Peter 60:001:001 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 60:001:002 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. 60:001:003 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 60:001:004 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 60:001:005 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. keywords: christ; glory; god cache: 8060.txt plain text: 8060.txt item: #235 of 418 id: 8061 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 61: 2 Peter date: None words: 1649 flesch: 77 summary: For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. Book 61 2 Peter 61:001:001 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: 61:001:002 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, 61:001:003 keywords: lord; things cache: 8061.txt plain text: 8061.txt item: #236 of 418 id: 8062 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 62: 1 John date: None words: 2657 flesch: 90 summary: 62:005:018 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one. keywords: god; love cache: 8062.txt plain text: 8062.txt item: #237 of 418 id: 8063 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 63: 2 John date: None words: 343 flesch: 90 summary: 63:001:003 Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. God speed is partaker of his evil deeds. keywords: truth cache: 8063.txt plain text: 8063.txt item: #238 of 418 id: 8064 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 64: 3 John date: None words: 340 flesch: 86 summary: 64:001:004 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. 64:001:005 Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers; 64:001:006 Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well: 64:001:007 Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles. keywords: truth cache: 8064.txt plain text: 8064.txt item: #239 of 418 id: 8065 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 65: Jude date: None words: 664 flesch: 76 summary: But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, 65:001:021 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. 65:001:004 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. keywords: jesus; lord cache: 8065.txt plain text: 8065.txt item: #240 of 418 id: 8066 author: Anonymous title: The Bible, King James version, Book 66: Revelation date: None words: 12437 flesch: 90 summary: And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. keywords: angel; beast; earth; god; hath; heaven; man; power; things; thou; throne; voice cache: 8066.txt plain text: 8066.txt item: #241 of 418 id: 8068 author: Maclaren, Alexander title: Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII date: None words: 271604 flesch: 77 summary: God does not choose great men for the heralds of His mercy, but the qualification is personal experience. for Thou, Lord God, knowest Thy servant. keywords: ark; character; children; christ; christian; city; come; david; day; days; death; divine; doubt; elijah; elisha; end; evil; eyes; faith; father; fear; god; good; great; hand; hath; heart; help; house; israel; jehovah; jesus; jordan; joshua; king; kingdom; know; land; law; left; life; like; lives; look; lord god; lord thy; love; man; means; men; nature; need; note; obedience; pass; people; place; plain; power; presence; promise; prophet; purpose; reason; religion; right; sacrifice; samuel; saul; saying; self; sense; servant; service; set; shall; sin; solomon; son; soul; spirit; stand; story; strength; text; thee; things; think; thou; thought; thy god; time; truth; unto; verse; victory; voice; way; words; work; world; years; young cache: 8068.txt plain text: 8068.txt item: #242 of 418 id: 8069 author: Maclaren, Alexander title: Expositions of Holy Scripture: Isaiah and Jeremiah date: None words: 233408 flesch: 76 summary: In Christ God has 'put away all His wrath, and turned Himself from the fierceness of His anger.' How profound a consciousness that man was made in the image of God, and that, in spite of all the gulf between finite and infinite, and the yet deeper gulf between sinful man and righteous God, He was closer to a poor struggling soul than even the dearest were, must have been at all events dawning on the prophet who dared to think of the Holy One in the Heavens as Israel's Kinsman. keywords: answer; character; christ; christian; church; city; comes; confidence; darkness; day; death; divine; earth; end; evil; experience; eyes; face; fact; faith; fire; forth; glory; god; good; hand; hath; heart; heaven; holy; hope; human; iii; isaiah; israel; jerusalem; jesus; jesus christ; joy; judgment; king; land; law; life; light; like; lives; living; lord god; love; man; men; nature; need; people; place; point; power; prophecy; prophet; question; rest; revelation; righteousness; salvation; self; sense; servant; set; sin; sins; sorrow; soul; spirit; strength; text; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; trust; truth; vision; voice; water; way; ways; words; work; world cache: 8069.txt plain text: 8069.txt item: #243 of 418 id: 8071 author: Maclaren, Alexander title: Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark date: None words: 203141 flesch: 75 summary: But what I wish to insist upon is that for large numbers of us, and no doubt for many men and women whom I address now, the real reason why they have not trust in Jesus Christ is because they do not care to possess the blessings which Jesus Christ brings. The Apostle John never employs it, either in his 'gospel' or in his epistles, and in the Apocalypse the word is only once found, and then it may be a question whether it refers to the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ. keywords: answer; believe; brethren; character; christian; come; cross; day; death; disciples; divine; earth; evil; eyes; fact; faith; father; forth; god; good; gospel; hand; heart; heaven; help; house; human; jesus christ; john; king; law; life; light; look; lord; love; loving; man; mark; means; men; miracle; nature; need; note; order; people; peter; place; point; power; presence; purpose; question; reason; round; saying; self; sense; service; set; sin; son; soul; spirit; tell; thee; things; think; thou; thought; thy; time; touch; truth; voice; way; words; work; world cache: 8071.txt plain text: 8071.txt item: #244 of 418 id: 8193 author: Dillon, Emile Joseph title: The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur date: None words: 58330 flesch: 74 summary: I have worried myself about God, and succeeded not, For I am more stupid than other men, And in me there is no human understanding: Neither have I learned wisdom, So that I might comprehend the science of sacred things. On God_ I Sentence of the man who has worried himself about God: I have worried myself about God and succeeded not; For I am more stupid than other men, And in me there is no human understanding. keywords: agur; behold; book; days; death; earth; end; evil; existence; eyes; fact; form; god; good; hand; hath; heart; hebrew; hope; human; jahveh; job; justice; know; knowledge; koheleth; life; light; man; men; pain; place; poem; second; soul; strophe; suffering; sun; text; thee; theory; things; thou; thy; time; vanity; version; way; wicked; wisdom; words; work; world cache: 8193.txt plain text: 8193.txt item: #245 of 418 id: 8200 author: Maclaren, Alexander title: Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke date: None words: 256525 flesch: 75 summary: That is true, and that solitude of great men is one of the compensations which run through all life, and make the lot of the many little, more enviable than that of the few great. If so, then the building will stand when the storm comes and the 'hail sweeps away the refuges' that other men have built elsewhere. keywords: believe; brethren; bring; character; christian; coming; cross; darkness; day; death; disciples; divine; earth; end; evil; face; fact; faith; father; forth; future; god; good; gospel; hand; hath; having; heart; heaven; house; human; jesus christ; john; kingdom; life; light; like; lives; living; look; lord; love; luke; man; master; means; men; moment; nature; need; new; note; order; people; peter; place; point; power; present; purpose; question; reason; regard; remember; saying; second; self; sense; servants; service; set; shall; sin; son; soul; spirit; text; thee; things; think; thou; thought; thy; time; truth; use; way; words; work; world cache: 8200.txt plain text: 8200.txt item: #246 of 418 id: 8225 author: Ballou, Hosea title: A Series of Letters, in Defence of Divine Revelation In Reply to Rev. Abner Kneeland's Serious Inquiry into the Authenticity of the Same. To Which is Added, a Religious Correspondence, Between the Rev. Hosea Ballou, and the Rev. Dr. Joseph Buckminster and Rev. Joseph Walton, Pastors of Congregational Churches in Portsmouth, N. H. date: None words: 107297 flesch: 63 summary: I am not now speaking of the apostles, whom I have considered _honest_ men; yet I should suppose that even these men might have much good at heart, although they should conduct exactly in the way which I have suggested. Preaching repentance_, I conceive _is teaching_ men and giving them such divine instructions as bring their minds to discover more glorious things than the sins and carnal vanities of this world; which _teaching_ produces a returning of the mind to the things of God and his ever blessed kingdom. keywords: account; apostles; argument; christ; death; divine; doctrine; doubt; evidence; fact; faith; god; good; gospel; hope; jesus; jesus christ; life; man; men; mind; miracles; people; place; present; reason; religion; resurrection; revelation; scriptures; sir; state; subject; testimony; thing; time; truth; way; world cache: 8225.txt plain text: 8225.txt item: #247 of 418 id: 8228 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Genesis date: None words: 38214 flesch: 95 summary: Said, Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons. This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens. keywords: abraham; abram; brother; children; daughters; day; days; earth; egypt; esau; father; god; hand; house; isaac; jacob; joseph; laban; land; man; men; pharaoh; place; saying; seed; son; sons; wife; yahweh; years cache: 8228.txt plain text: 8228.txt item: #248 of 418 id: 8229 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Exodus date: None words: 32449 flesch: 91 summary: But as for you and your servants, I know that you don't yet fear Yahweh God. 017:015 Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Yahweh our Banner.{Hebrew, Yahweh Nissi} 017:016 keywords: aaron; altar; children; day; egypt; egyptians; god; gold; hand; israel; land; man; moses; offering; people; pharaoh; saying; sockets; sons; tent; work; yahweh cache: 8229.txt plain text: 8229.txt item: #249 of 418 id: 8230 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Leviticus date: None words: 24421 flesch: 85 summary: The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Yahweh, which is in the tent of meeting; and he shall pour out all of rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting. 004:008 He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before Yahweh, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting. keywords: aaron; altar; blood; day; fire; holy; israel; land; moses; offering; priest; sin offering; yahweh cache: 8230.txt plain text: 8230.txt item: #250 of 418 id: 8231 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Numbers date: None words: 32861 flesch: 84 summary: 021:006 Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. 003:011 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 003:012 Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine: 003:013 for all the firstborn are mine. keywords: aaron; children; congregation; day; families; family; fathers; israel; land; levites; male; man; meal offering; meeting; moses; offering; people; priest; son; sons; tent; tribe; yahweh cache: 8231.txt plain text: 8231.txt item: #251 of 418 id: 8232 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Deuteronomy date: None words: 28809 flesch: 86 summary: I begged Yahweh at that time, saying, 003:024 Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand: for what god is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to your works, and according to your mighty acts? 009:026 I prayed to Yahweh, and said, Lord Yahweh, don't destroy your people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. keywords: children; day; days; egypt; fathers; god; hand; heart; israel; land; man; midst; people; place; possess; words; yahweh cache: 8232.txt plain text: 8232.txt item: #252 of 418 id: 8233 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Joshua date: None words: 19166 flesch: 82 summary: 014:012 Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Yahweh spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and cities great and fortified: it may be that Yahweh will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh spoke. [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel; 021:002 and they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, Yahweh commanded Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs of it for our livestock. keywords: border; children; cities; city; god; israel; jordan; joshua; king; land; men; moses; people; suburbs; tribe; yahweh cache: 8233.txt plain text: 8233.txt item: #253 of 418 id: 8234 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Judges date: None words: 19072 flesch: 90 summary: The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is happen among you? 020:013 The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword: all these were men of war. keywords: benjamin; children; city; day; father; god; hand; house; israel; land; man; men; people; son; yahweh cache: 8234.txt plain text: 8234.txt item: #254 of 418 id: 8235 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Ruth date: None words: 2630 flesch: 91 summary: 003:010 He said, Blessed are you by Yahweh, my daughter: you have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as you didn't follow young men, whether poor or rich. 002:012 Yahweh recompense your work, and a full reward be given you of Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you are come to take refuge. keywords: boaz; law; naomi cache: 8235.txt plain text: 8235.txt item: #255 of 418 id: 8236 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Samuel date: None words: 25116 flesch: 90 summary: 018:009 Saul eyed David from that day and forward. 018:006 It happened as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music. keywords: ark; david; day; father; god; hand; house; israel; jonathan; king; man; men; people; philistines; samuel; saul; servants; son; yahweh cache: 8236.txt plain text: 8236.txt item: #256 of 418 id: 8237 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Samuel date: None words: 20798 flesch: 90 summary: So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh: and they anointed David king over Israel. These also did king David dedicate to Yahweh, with the silver and gold that he dedicated of all the nations which he subdued; 008:012 of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah. keywords: absalom; david; day; god; hand; house; israel; joab; king; king david; lord; man; men; people; saul; servants; son; yahweh cache: 8237.txt plain text: 8237.txt item: #257 of 418 id: 8238 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Kings date: None words: 24643 flesch: 87 summary: 001:043 Jonathan answered Adonijah, Most certainly our lord king David has made Solomon king: 001:044 and the king has sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they have caused him to ride on the king's mule; 001:045 and Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon; and they are come up from there rejoicing, so that the city rang again. 001:051 It was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah fears king Solomon; for, behold, he has laid hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear to me first that he will not kill his servant with the sword. keywords: ahab; david; father; god; gold; house; israel; jeroboam; judah; king; king solomon; man; people; place; saying; solomon; son; word; yahweh cache: 8238.txt plain text: 8238.txt item: #258 of 418 id: 8239 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Kings date: None words: 23603 flesch: 89 summary: Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. 018:009 It happened in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it. keywords: assyria; city; elisha; god; hand; house; israel; jerusalem; judah; king; land; man; people; samaria; saying; son; yahweh cache: 8239.txt plain text: 8239.txt item: #259 of 418 id: 8240 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Chronicles date: None words: 20999 flesch: 84 summary: 002:052 Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim had sons: With them, by their generations, after their fathers' houses, were bands of the army for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons. keywords: ark; bore; brothers; chief; children; david; father; firstborn; god; hand; heads; house; israel; jerusalem; joab; judah; king; levites; men; people; philistines; place; saul; service; solomon; sons; suburbs; tribe; yahweh cache: 8240.txt plain text: 8240.txt item: #260 of 418 id: 8241 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Chronicles date: None words: 26321 flesch: 82 summary: 006:041 Now therefore arise, Yahweh God, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength: let your priests, Yahweh God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness. and they withstood Uzziah the king, and said to him, It pertains not to you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for you have trespassed; neither shall it be for your honor from Yahweh God. keywords: children; david; fathers; god; hand; house; israel; jerusalem; judah; king; levites; men; people; place; priests; solomon; son; yahweh; yahweh god; years cache: 8241.txt plain text: 8241.txt item: #261 of 418 id: 8242 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Ezra date: None words: 7563 flesch: 80 summary: 010:001 Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very sore. But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God. keywords: children; god; house; israel; jerusalem; king; priests; sons; yahweh cache: 8242.txt plain text: 8242.txt item: #262 of 418 id: 8243 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Nehemiah date: None words: 10790 flesch: 83 summary: One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me. 004:015 It happened, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, that we returned all of us to the wall, everyone to his work. keywords: children; day; gate; god; house; jerusalem; judah; king; levites; people; priests; son; wall cache: 8243.txt plain text: 8243.txt item: #263 of 418 id: 8244 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Esther date: None words: 5718 flesch: 83 summary: There was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite, 002:006 who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away. 007:003 Then Esther the queen answered, If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request. keywords: esther; haman; jews; king; mordecai cache: 8244.txt plain text: 8244.txt item: #264 of 418 id: 8245 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Job date: None words: 18971 flesch: 100 summary: 022:015 Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden, 022:016 who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream, 022:017 who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can the Almighty do for us?' Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men? keywords: almighty; answer; darkness; days; earth; eyes; god; hand; job; light; man; men; mouth; place; wicked; words; yahweh; yes cache: 8245.txt plain text: 8245.txt item: #265 of 418 id: 8246 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Psalms date: None words: 44852 flesch: 97 summary: 072:018 Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds. For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh; my confidence from my youth. keywords: chief; children; david; day; earth; enemies; evil; fear; god; good; hand; heart; israel; kindness; lord; man; men; mouth; musician; nations; people; praise yahweh; psalm; righteousness; salvation; selah; soul; strength; wicked; word; yahweh; yahweh god cache: 8246.txt plain text: 8246.txt item: #266 of 418 id: 8247 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Proverbs date: None words: 15625 flesch: 95 summary: By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil. 010:014 Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin. keywords: evil; fool; good; heart; knowledge; life; lips; man; mouth; son; understanding; way; wicked; wisdom; wise; yahweh cache: 8247.txt plain text: 8247.txt item: #267 of 418 id: 8248 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Ecclesiastes date: None words: 5796 flesch: 94 summary: There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun? keywords: god; heart; man; sun; time; vanity cache: 8248.txt plain text: 8248.txt item: #268 of 418 id: 8249 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Song of Solomon date: None words: 2721 flesch: 98 summary: I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love. His banner over me is love. keywords: beloved; daughters; friends; jerusalem; lover cache: 8249.txt plain text: 8249.txt item: #269 of 418 id: 8250 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Isaiah date: None words: 37208 flesch: 92 summary: Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it. 001:002 Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. keywords: armies; city; day; earth; egypt; eyes; fire; glory; god; hand; heart; holy; house; israel; jacob; jerusalem; king; land; lord yahweh; man; men; nations; people; place; righteousness; things; yahweh; zion cache: 8250.txt plain text: 8250.txt item: #270 of 418 id: 8251 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Jeremiah date: None words: 43474 flesch: 86 summary: Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters. 001:006 Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! keywords: armies; babylon; cities; city; day; earth; egypt; evil; god; hand; heart; house; israel; jeremiah; jerusalem; judah; king; land; man; men; nations; people; son; voice; word; yahweh cache: 8251.txt plain text: 8251.txt item: #271 of 418 id: 8252 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Lamentations date: None words: 3564 flesch: 91 summary: 003:025 Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him. 002:017 Yahweh has done that which he purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; He has thrown down, and has not pitied: He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; he has exalted the horn of your adversaries. keywords: daughter; day; lord; yahweh; zion cache: 8252.txt plain text: 8252.txt item: #272 of 418 id: 8253 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Ezekiel date: None words: 40245 flesch: 87 summary: 009:004 Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst of it. 044:002 Yahweh said to me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, neither shall any man enter in by it; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut. keywords: behold; blood; cubits; day; east; gate; hand; house; israel; land; lord yahweh; man; men; midst; nations; offering; people; round; set; son; sword; way cache: 8253.txt plain text: 8253.txt item: #273 of 418 id: 8254 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Daniel date: None words: 11960 flesch: 84 summary: 002:037 You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory; 002:038 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and besieged it. keywords: daniel; end; god; interpretation; king; kingdom; men; nebuchadnezzar; time cache: 8254.txt plain text: 8254.txt item: #274 of 418 id: 8255 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Hosea date: None words: 5281 flesch: 93 summary: 001:004 Yahweh said to him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease. The word of Yahweh that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. keywords: children; ephraim; god; israel; king; land; yahweh cache: 8255.txt plain text: 8255.txt item: #275 of 418 id: 8256 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Joel date: None words: 2010 flesch: 90 summary: 002:011 Yahweh thunders his voice before his army; for his forces are very great; for he is strong who obeys his command; for the day of Yahweh is great and very awesome, and who can endure it? 003:016 Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel. keywords: children; god; land; yahweh cache: 8256.txt plain text: 8256.txt item: #276 of 418 id: 8257 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Amos date: None words: 4230 flesch: 89 summary: 006:011 For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits. 007:003 Yahweh relented concerning this. keywords: house; israel; land; lord; lord yahweh; yahweh cache: 8257.txt plain text: 8257.txt item: #277 of 418 id: 8258 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Obadiah date: None words: 658 flesch: 92 summary: 001:021 Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh's. 001:008 Won't I in that day, says Yahweh, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau? keywords: day cache: 8258.txt plain text: 8258.txt item: #278 of 418 id: 8259 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Jonah date: None words: 1334 flesch: 94 summary: 004:010 Yahweh said, You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night. 004:006 Yahweh God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his discomfort. keywords: jonah; yahweh cache: 8259.txt plain text: 8259.txt item: #279 of 418 id: 8260 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Micah date: None words: 3154 flesch: 92 summary: For out of Zion will go forth the law, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem; 004:003 and he will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. 004:013 Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs brass; and you will beat in pieces many peoples: and I will devote their gain to Yahweh, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth. keywords: house; israel; jacob; people; yahweh cache: 8260.txt plain text: 8260.txt item: #280 of 418 id: 8261 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Nahum date: None words: 1259 flesch: 96 summary: Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Thus says Yahweh: Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. keywords: chariots; end; yahweh cache: 8261.txt plain text: 8261.txt item: #281 of 418 id: 8262 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Habakkuk date: None words: 1456 flesch: 95 summary: 002:002 Yahweh answered me, Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation! 003:019 Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. keywords: nations; violence; yahweh cache: 8262.txt plain text: 8262.txt item: #282 of 418 id: 8263 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Zephaniah date: None words: 1631 flesch: 89 summary: 002:011 Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. The word of Yahweh which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah. keywords: day; midst; yahweh cache: 8263.txt plain text: 8263.txt item: #283 of 418 id: 8264 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Haggai date: None words: 1098 flesch: 92 summary: In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, 001:002 This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, 'The time hasn't yet come, the time for Yahweh's house to be built.' In the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai the prophet, saying, 002:011 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying, 002:012 keywords: armies; yahweh cache: 8264.txt plain text: 8264.txt item: #284 of 418 id: 8265 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Zechariah date: None words: 6362 flesch: 90 summary: 010:001 Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field. 010:002 002:012 Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem. keywords: angel; armies; day; house; jerusalem; land; yahweh cache: 8265.txt plain text: 8265.txt item: #285 of 418 id: 8266 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Malachi date: None words: 1766 flesch: 91 summary: 002:012 Yahweh will cut off, to the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob, and him who offers an offering to Yahweh of Armies. For he is like a refiner's fire, and like launderer's soap; 003:003 and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness. keywords: armies; god; yahweh cache: 8266.txt plain text: 8266.txt item: #286 of 418 id: 8267 author: None title: The World English Bible (WEB): Matthew date: None words: 24960 flesch: 92 summary: The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ{Christ (Greek) and Messiah (Hebrew) both mean Anointed One}, the son of David, the son of Abraham. When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, How did the fig tree immediately wither away? 021:021 Jesus answered them, Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don't doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it would be done. keywords: behold; children; day; disciples; father; god; good; hand; heaven; house; jesus; kingdom; lord; man; men; multitudes; pharisees; saying; son; things; way cache: 8267.txt plain text: 8267.txt item: #287 of 418 id: 8268 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Mark date: None words: 15383 flesch: 93 summary: As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings! 013:002 Jesus said to him, Do you see these great buildings? It happened in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan. keywords: day; disciples; god; hand; house; jesus; john; kingdom; man; multitude; saying; scribes; son; things cache: 8268.txt plain text: 8268.txt item: #288 of 418 id: 8269 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Luke date: None words: 26333 flesch: 93 summary: For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had caught; 005:010 and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. 012:053 They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. keywords: behold; city; day; days; disciples; father; god; good; house; jerusalem; jesus; kingdom; lord; man; men; people; saying; son; spirit; things; way cache: 8269.txt plain text: 8269.txt item: #289 of 418 id: 8270 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): John date: None words: 20205 flesch: 95 summary: The disciples told him, Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and are you going there again? 011:009 Jesus answered, Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 001:030 keywords: day; disciples; father; god; jesus; jews; life; lord; man; peter; son; things; world cache: 8270.txt plain text: 8270.txt item: #290 of 418 id: 8271 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Acts date: None words: 24944 flesch: 89 summary: But certain men joined with him, and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them. Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.{The word for brothers here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated brothers and sisters or siblings. keywords: brothers; city; day; days; god; holy; house; jerusalem; jesus; jews; lord; man; men; paul; people; peter; saying; spirit; things; word cache: 8271.txt plain text: 8271.txt item: #291 of 418 id: 8272 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Romans date: None words: 10353 flesch: 89 summary: Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, 001:002 which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, 001:003 concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, 001:004 who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, 001:005 through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake; 001:006 among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ; 001:007 to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 002:014 (for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves, 002:015 in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them) 002:016 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ. keywords: christ; faith; god; good; jesus; law; lord; righteousness; sin; spirit cache: 8272.txt plain text: 8272.txt item: #292 of 418 id: 8273 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Corinthians date: None words: 10068 flesch: 93 summary: Book 46 1 Corinthians 001:001 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, 001:002 to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours: 001:003 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus; 001:005 that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge; 001:006 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: keywords: body; brothers; christ; god; jesus; lord; man; spirit; things cache: 8273.txt plain text: 8273.txt item: #293 of 418 id: 8274 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Corinthians date: None words: 6446 flesch: 88 summary: Book 47 2 Corinthians 001:001 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia: 001:002 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake; 004:006 seeing it is God who said, Light will shine out of darkness,{Genesis 1:3} who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. keywords: christ; glory; god; jesus; lord; things cache: 8274.txt plain text: 8274.txt item: #294 of 418 id: 8275 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Galatians date: None words: 3374 flesch: 90 summary: 002:015 We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners, 002:016 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing! 003:001 Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth among you as crucified? keywords: christ; faith; god; law cache: 8275.txt plain text: 8275.txt item: #295 of 418 id: 8276 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Ephesians date: None words: 3283 flesch: 76 summary: 003:008 To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, 003:009 and to make all men see what is the administration{TR reads fellowship instead of administration} of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ; 003:010 to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places, 003:011 according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord; 003:012 in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him. Book 49 Ephesians 001:001 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: 001:002 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. keywords: christ; god; jesus; lord cache: 8276.txt plain text: 8276.txt item: #296 of 418 id: 8277 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Philippians date: None words: 2373 flesch: 86 summary: Book 50 Philippians 001:001 Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers{or, superintendents, or bishops} and servants{Or, deacons}: 001:002 Grace to you, and peace from God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment; 001:010 so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ; 001:011 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. keywords: christ; jesus; things cache: 8277.txt plain text: 8277.txt item: #297 of 418 id: 8278 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Colossians date: None words: 2135 flesch: 77 summary: 001:003 We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, 001:004 having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints, 001:005 because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News, 001:006 which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth; 001:007 even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on our behalf, 001:008 who also declared to us your love in the Spirit. } in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. keywords: christ; god; things cache: 8278.txt plain text: 8278.txt item: #298 of 418 id: 8279 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Thessalonians date: None words: 1981 flesch: 88 summary: For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews; 002:015 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn't please God, and are contrary to all men; 002:016 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. Book 52 1 Thessalonians 001:001 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. keywords: brothers; god; lord cache: 8279.txt plain text: 8279.txt item: #299 of 418 id: 8280 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Thessalonians date: None words: 1130 flesch: 83 summary: Book 53 2 Thessalonians 001:001 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: 001:002 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth; 002:014 to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. keywords: god; lord cache: 8280.txt plain text: 8280.txt item: #300 of 418 id: 8281 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Timothy date: None words: 2442 flesch: 80 summary: 006:013 I charge you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession, 006:014 that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ; 006:015 which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; 006:016 who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. but (which becomes women professing godliness) with good works. keywords: christ; faith; god; good cache: 8281.txt plain text: 8281.txt item: #301 of 418 id: 8282 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Timothy date: None words: 1734 flesch: 86 summary: Book 55 2 Timothy 001:001 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus, 001:002 to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. Therefore don't be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God, 001:009 who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal, 001:010 but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News. 001:011 keywords: christ; jesus; lord cache: 8282.txt plain text: 8282.txt item: #302 of 418 id: 8283 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Titus date: None words: 971 flesch: 74 summary: For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, 002:012 instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world; 002:013 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ; 002:014 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works. This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. keywords: god; things cache: 8283.txt plain text: 8283.txt item: #303 of 418 id: 8284 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Philemon date: None words: 481 flesch: 86 summary: Book 57 Philemon 001:001 Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker, 001:002 to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus, our fellow soldier, and to the assembly in your house: 001:003 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers, 001:005 hearing of your love, and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints; 001:006 that the fellowship of your faith may become effective, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus. keywords: jesus cache: 8284.txt plain text: 8284.txt item: #304 of 418 id: 8285 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Hebrews date: None words: 7429 flesch: 85 summary: For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 007:002 to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace; 007:003 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually. Today have I become your father?{Psalm 2:7} and again, I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?{2 Samuel 7:14; 1 Chronicles 17:13} 001:006 Again, when he brings in the firstborn into the world he says, Let all the angels of God worship him. keywords: blood; covenant; faith; god; lord; priest; son; things cache: 8285.txt plain text: 8285.txt item: #305 of 418 id: 8286 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): James date: None words: 2460 flesch: 93 summary: So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; 001:020 for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror; 001:024 for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. keywords: brothers; faith; god; man cache: 8286.txt plain text: 8286.txt item: #306 of 418 id: 8287 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Peter date: None words: 2603 flesch: 81 summary: Book 60 1 Peter 001:001 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 001:002 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied. 001:003 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 001:004 to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn't fade away, reserved in Heaven for you, 001:005 who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. keywords: christ; god; good; jesus cache: 8287.txt plain text: 8287.txt item: #307 of 418 id: 8288 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Peter date: None words: 1633 flesch: 76 summary: Book 61 2 Peter 001:001 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: 001:002 Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 001:003 seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue; 001:004 by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust. For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. keywords: jesus; lord; things cache: 8288.txt plain text: 8288.txt item: #308 of 418 id: 8289 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): 1 John date: None words: 2718 flesch: 93 summary: The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God. keywords: god; love cache: 8289.txt plain text: 8289.txt item: #309 of 418 id: 8290 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): 2 John date: None words: 332 flesch: 89 summary: The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all those who know the truth; 001:002 for the truth's sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever: 001:003 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. 001:007 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don't confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. keywords: truth cache: 8290.txt plain text: 8290.txt item: #310 of 418 id: 8291 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): 3 John date: None words: 322 flesch: 94 summary: For I rejoiced greatly, when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth. The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth. keywords: truth cache: 8291.txt plain text: 8291.txt item: #311 of 418 id: 8292 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Jude date: None words: 654 flesch: 80 summary: For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ. Book 65 Jude 001:001 Jude,{or, Judah} a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: keywords: christ; lord cache: 8292.txt plain text: 8292.txt item: #312 of 418 id: 8293 author: Anonymous title: The World English Bible (WEB): Revelation date: None words: 12210 flesch: 92 summary: They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! 016:007 I heard the altar saying, Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments. keywords: angel; beast; earth; god; heaven; lamb; saying; things; throne; voice cache: 8293.txt plain text: 8293.txt item: #313 of 418 id: 8301 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision date: None words: 43465 flesch: 91 summary: But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it? 15:9. And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons with thee. keywords: abraham; begot; brethren; brother; children; day; earth; egypt; esau; father; god; hath; house; isaac; jacob; joseph; land; lord; lord god; man; place; sons; thee; thou; thy; wife; years cache: 8301.txt plain text: 8301.txt item: #314 of 418 id: 8302 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision date: None words: 34848 flesch: 91 summary: But the seventh year thou shalt let it alone, and suffer it to rest, that the poor of thy people may eat, and whatsoever shall be left, let the beasts of the field eat it: so shalt thou do with thy vineyard and thy oliveyard. Moreover, for the sons of Aaron thou shalt prepare linen tunics, and girdles and mitres for glory and beauty: 28:41. keywords: aaron; children; day; egypt; god; gold; israel; land; lord; lord god; lord thy; moses; people; pharao; tabernacle; thee; thou; thy cache: 8302.txt plain text: 8302.txt item: #315 of 418 id: 8303 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision date: None words: 24592 flesch: 89 summary: Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother: she is thy mother, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. Thou shalt not speak evil of the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind: but thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, because I am the Lord. keywords: aaron; altar; blood; hath; holy; israel; lord; man; offer; priest; sin; thou; thy cache: 8303.txt plain text: 8303.txt item: #316 of 418 id: 8304 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 04: Numbers The Challoner Revision date: None words: 33332 flesch: 88 summary: O Lord God, hear the cry of this people, and open to them thy treasure, a fountain of living water, that being satisfied, they may cease to murmur. And there were found sons of Levi by their names, Gerson and Caath Merari. keywords: aaron; children; day; family; hath; israel; land; lord; men; moses; people; sin; son; sons; tabernacle; thee; thou; thy; tribe; year cache: 8304.txt plain text: 8304.txt item: #317 of 418 id: 8305 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 05: Deuteronomy The Challoner Revision date: None words: 30181 flesch: 88 summary: Thou shalt not adore them, and thou shalt not serve them. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and shalt serve him only, and thou shalt swear by his name. keywords: children; day; eat; fathers; hand; hath; israel; land; lord god; lord thy; man; people; possess; thee; things; thou; thy god cache: 8305.txt plain text: 8305.txt item: #318 of 418 id: 8306 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 06: Josue The Challoner Revision date: None words: 19909 flesch: 87 summary: This is the possession of the Rubenites, by their kindreds, of cities and villages. 13:24. And half Galaad, and Astaroth, and Edrai, cities of the kingdom of Og in Basan: to the children of Machir, the son of Manasses, to one half of the children of Machir according to their kindreds. 13:32. keywords: children; cities; city; day; god; israel; jordan; josue; king; land; lord; moses; people; possession; tribe cache: 8306.txt plain text: 8306.txt item: #319 of 418 id: 8307 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 07: Judges The Challoner Revision date: None words: 21952 flesch: 88 summary: But he called upon the Lord, saying: O Lord God remember me, and restore to me now my former strength, O my God, that I may revenge myself on my enemies, and for the loss of my two eyes I may take one revenge. And he answered her: If I shall be bound with new ropes, that were never in work, I shall be weak and like other men. keywords: benjamin; children; city; father; god; house; israel; land; lord; man; men; people; son; thee; thou; thy cache: 8307.txt plain text: 8307.txt item: #320 of 418 id: 8308 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 08: Ruth The Challoner Revision date: None words: 3102 flesch: 89 summary: Noemi returneth home with her daughter in law Ruth, who refuseth to part with her. 1:1. Ruth Chapter 4 Upon the refusal of the nearer kinsman, Booz marrieth Ruth, who bringeth forth Obed, the grandfather of David. 4:1 keywords: booz; thee; thou; thy cache: 8308.txt plain text: 8308.txt item: #321 of 418 id: 8309 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 09: 1 Kings The Challoner Revision date: None words: 29117 flesch: 91 summary: Now at the time that Saul saw David going out against the Philistines, he said to Abner, the captain of the army: Of what family is this young man descended, Abner? Then Samuel taking Saul, and his servant, brought them into the parlour, and gave them a place at the head of them that were invited. keywords: david; day; god; hath; israel; king; lord; man; men; people; philistines; samuel; saul; thee; thou; thy cache: 8309.txt plain text: 8309.txt item: #322 of 418 id: 8310 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 10: 2 Kings The Challoner Revision date: None words: 23044 flesch: 89 summary: And king David himself followed the bier. 3:32. And when they had buried Abner in Hebron, king David lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner: and all the people also wept. 3:33. keywords: absalom; david; god; house; israel; joab; king; king david; lord; men; people; saul; son; thee; thou; thy cache: 8310.txt plain text: 8310.txt item: #323 of 418 id: 8311 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 11: 3 Kings The Challoner Revision date: None words: 27576 flesch: 88 summary: And Jonathan answered Adonias: Not so: for our lord, king David, hath appointed Solomon king; 1:44. And let Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, anoint him there king over Israel: and you shall sound the trumpet, and shall say: God save king Solomon. keywords: david; father; god; hath; house; israel; jeroboam; king; king solomon; lord; people; saying; solomon; son; thee; thou; thy; word cache: 8311.txt plain text: 8311.txt item: #324 of 418 id: 8312 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 12: 4 Kings The Challoner Revision date: None words: 26358 flesch: 88 summary: In the fourth year of king Ezechias, which was the seventh vear of Osee, the son of Ela, king of Israel, Salmanasar, king of the Assyrians, came up to Samaria, and besieged it, 18:10. In the fourteenth year of king Ezechias, Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, came up against the fenced cities of Juda, and took them. 18:14. keywords: city; eliseus; god; house; israel; jerusalem; juda; king; lord; man; people; son; temple; thee; thou; thy cache: 8312.txt plain text: 8312.txt item: #325 of 418 id: 8313 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 13: 1 Paralipomenon The Challoner Revision date: None words: 22202 flesch: 89 summary: And Sobal the father of Cariathiarim had sons: he that saw half of the places of rest. But the fields of the city, and the villages to Caleb son of Jephone. keywords: ark; begot; brethren; chief; children; david; families; father; god; house; israel; king; levites; lord; men; number; paralipomenon; people; saul; sons; suburbs; thee; things; thou; thy; tribe cache: 8313.txt plain text: 8313.txt item: #326 of 418 id: 8314 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 14: 2 Paralipomenon The Challoner Revision date: None words: 27364 flesch: 84 summary: And all the vessels of the house of Lord, great and small, and the treasures of the temple and of the king, and of the princes he carried away to Babylon. And he added, saying: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who hath given to king David a wise and knowing son, endued with understanding and prudence, to build a house to the Lord, and a palace for himself. keywords: david; god; house; israel; jerusalem; juda; king; levites; lord; lord god; people; priests; solomon; son; thee; thou; thy cache: 8314.txt plain text: 8314.txt item: #327 of 418 id: 8315 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 15: 1 Esdras The Challoner Revision date: None words: 8197 flesch: 82 summary: Now when Esdras was thus praying, and beseeching, and weeping, and lying before the temple of God, there was gathered to him of Israel an exceeding great assembly of men and women and children, and the people wept with much lamentation. But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon, king Cyrus set forth a decree, that this house of God should be built. 5:14. keywords: children; god; house; israel; jerusalem; king; lord; men; son; sons cache: 8315.txt plain text: 8315.txt item: #328 of 418 id: 8316 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 16: 2 Esdras The Challoner Revision date: None words: 11510 flesch: 86 summary: And their brethren who were very mighty, a hundred twenty-eight: and their ruler Zabdiel son of the mighty. 11:15. And one of the sons of Joiada the son of Eliasib the high priest, was son in law to Sanaballat the Horonite, and I drove him from me. keywords: children; day; god; house; jerusalem; king; levites; men; people; priests; son; thou; thy cache: 8316.txt plain text: 8316.txt item: #329 of 418 id: 8317 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 17: Tobias The Challoner Revision date: None words: 8124 flesch: 88 summary: Tobias Chapter 3 The prayer of Tobias, and of Sara, in their several afflictions, are heard by God, and the angel Raphael is sent to relieve them. And Tobias said: Lord God of our fathers, may the heavens and the earth, and the sea, and the fountains, and the rivers, and all thy creatures that are in them, bless thee. 8:8. keywords: god; lord; son; thee; thou; thy; tobias cache: 8317.txt plain text: 8317.txt item: #330 of 418 id: 8318 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 18: Judith The Challoner Revision date: None words: 10545 flesch: 85 summary: Lord God of my father Simeon, who gavest him a sword to execute vengeance against strangers, who had defiled by their uncleanness, and uncovered the virgin unto confusion: Gavest him a sword, etc... The justice of God is here praised, in punishing by the sword of Simeon the crime of the Sichemites: and not the act of Simeon, which was justly condemned by his father, Gen. 49.5. And all nations may acknowledge that thou art God, and there is no other besides thee. keywords: god; holofernes; israel; judith; lord; people; thee; things; thou; thy cache: 8318.txt plain text: 8318.txt item: #331 of 418 id: 8319 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 19: Esther The Challoner Revision date: None words: 9639 flesch: 82 summary: Also Vasthi the queen made a feast for the women in the palace, where king Assuerus was used to dwell. What sentence ought to pass upon Vasthi the queen, who had refused to obey the commandment of king Assuerus, which he had sent to her by the eunuchs? 1:16. keywords: aman; day; esther; jews; king; mardochai; provinces; queen; thou cache: 8319.txt plain text: 8319.txt item: #332 of 418 id: 8320 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision date: None words: 21849 flesch: 96 summary: For he hath said: Man shall not please God, although he run with him. Dost thou desire to keep the path of ages, which wicked men have trodden? 22:16. keywords: chapter; earth; god; hand; hath; job; lord; man; men; mouth; thee; things; thou; thy; wicked; words cache: 8320.txt plain text: 8320.txt item: #333 of 418 id: 8321 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision date: None words: 56174 flesch: 95 summary: O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant? 79:6. Who have said: We will magnify our tongue: our lips are our own: who is Lord over us? 11:6. keywords: chapter; david; day; earth; end; enemies; glory; god; hand; hast; hath; heart; iniquity; justice; lord god; lord thy; man; mercy; o god; o lord; people; praise; psalms; soul; thee; thou; thy; thy god cache: 8321.txt plain text: 8321.txt item: #334 of 418 id: 8322 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision date: None words: 17417 flesch: 94 summary: Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the fool is next to confusion. Corrupt men bring a city to ruin: but wise men turn away wrath. 29:9. keywords: evil; good; hath; heart; lord; man; mouth; son; soul; thee; thou; way; wicked; wisdom; words cache: 8322.txt plain text: 8322.txt item: #335 of 418 id: 8323 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 23: Ecclesiastes The Challoner Revision date: None words: 6554 flesch: 89 summary: There are just men to whom evils happen, as though they had done the works of the wicked: and there are wicked men, who are as secure as though they had the deeds of the just: but this also I judge most vain. 8:15. All these things have I considered in my heart, that I might carefully understand them: there are just men and wise men, and their works are in the hand of God: and yet man knoweth not whether he be worthy of love, or hatred: 9:2. keywords: god; hath; man; sun; things; time; vanity cache: 8323.txt plain text: 8323.txt item: #336 of 418 id: 8324 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 24: Canticle of Canticles The Challoner Revision date: None words: 4117 flesch: 88 summary: This metaphor shews that we cannot of ourselves come to Christ our Lord, unless he draws us by his grace, which is laid up in his storerooms: that is, in the mysteries of Faith, which God in his goodness and love for mankind hath revealed, first by his servant Moses in the Old Law in figure only, and afterwards in reality by his only begotten Son Jesus Christ. This Book is called the Canticle of Canticles, that is to say, the most excellent of all canticles: because it is full of high mysteries, relating to the happy union of Christ and his spouse: which is here begun by love; and is to be eternal in heaven. keywords: beloved; christ; church; spouse; thee; thou cache: 8324.txt plain text: 8324.txt item: #337 of 418 id: 8325 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 25: Wisdom The Challoner Revision date: None words: 12033 flesch: 86 summary: For the bewitching of vanity obscureth good things, and the wandering of concupiscence overturneth the innocent mind. For regarding not wisdom, they did not only slip in this, that they were ignorant of good things; but they left also unto men a memorial of their folly, so that in the things in which they sinned, they could not so much as lie hid. 10:9. keywords: god; good; hath; lord; man; men; thee; things; thou; thy; wicked; wisdom cache: 8325.txt plain text: 8325.txt item: #338 of 418 id: 8326 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision date: None words: 34792 flesch: 91 summary: For of them thou shalt learn wisdom, and instruction of understanding, and to serve great men without blame. 8:11. The wisdom of the humble shall exalt his head, and shall make him sit in the midst of great men. 11:2. keywords: away; chapter; ecclesiasticus; fear; glory; god; good; hath; heart; life; lord; man; men; people; shall; soul; thee; things; thou; thy; time; wisdom; works cache: 8326.txt plain text: 8326.txt item: #339 of 418 id: 8327 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision date: None words: 42116 flesch: 90 summary: Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, in the Holy One of Israel thou shalt be joyful. And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been debased: therefore forgive them not. 2:10. keywords: behold; chapter; day; earth; god; hand; hath; hosts; house; isaias; israel; king; land; lord; lord god; lord thy; man; o lord; people; saith; thee; things; thou; thy cache: 8327.txt plain text: 8327.txt item: #340 of 418 id: 8328 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision date: None words: 47523 flesch: 88 summary: O Lord, my might, and my strength, and my refuge in the day of tribulation: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say: Surely our fathers have possessed lies, a vanity which hath not profited them. But thou shalt die in peace, and according to the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings that were before thee, so shall they burn thee: and they shall mourn for thee, saying: Alas, Lord: for I have spoken the word, saith the Lord. Die in peace... keywords: babylon; behold; god; hath; house; israel; jeremias; jerusalem; juda; king; land; lord; lord god; man; o lord; people; saith; son; thee; thou; thy; word cache: 8328.txt plain text: 8328.txt item: #341 of 418 id: 8329 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 29: Lamentations of Jeremias The Challoner Revision date: None words: 4084 flesch: 94 summary: Her filthiness is on her feet, and she hath not remembered her end; she is wonderfully cast down, not having a comforter: behold, O Lord, my affliction, because the enemy is lifted up. All her people sigh, they seek bread: they have given all their precious things for food to relieve the soul: see, 0 Lord, and consider, for I am become vile. keywords: daughter; hath; lord; sion; thee; thou cache: 8329.txt plain text: 8329.txt item: #342 of 418 id: 8330 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 30: Baruch The Challoner Revision date: None words: 5911 flesch: 90 summary: For she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, and she said: Give ear, all you that dwell near Sion, for God hath brought upon me great mourning: 4:10. Baruch Chapter 2 A further confession of the sins of the people, and of the justice of God. keywords: god; gods; hath; lord; thee; thou cache: 8330.txt plain text: 8330.txt item: #343 of 418 id: 8331 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 31: Ezechiel The Challoner Revision date: None words: 44968 flesch: 88 summary: Lord God, thou knowest. And I will cast thee forth into the desert, and all the fish of thy river: thou shalt fall upon the face of the earth, thou shalt not be taken up, nor gathered together: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the earth, and to the fowls of the air. 29:6. keywords: cubits; day; gate; hand; hast; hath; house; israel; land; lord god; man; midst; nations; people; round; saith; son; sword; thee; thou; thy cache: 8331.txt plain text: 8331.txt item: #344 of 418 id: 8332 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 32: Daniel The Challoner Revision date: None words: 18678 flesch: 87 summary: Then king Nabuchodonosor fell on his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer in sacrifice to him victims and incense. 2:47. Then the nobles, the magistrates, and the judges, the captains, and rulers, and the great men that were placed in authority, and all the princes of the provinces, were gathered together to come to the dedication of the statue, which king Nabuchodonosor had set up. keywords: daniel; god; hath; king; kingdom; lord; men; nabuchodonosor; o king; thee; thou; thy; time cache: 8332.txt plain text: 8332.txt item: #345 of 418 id: 8333 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 33: Osee The Challoner Revision date: None words: 6826 flesch: 89 summary: From the days of Gabaa, Israel hath sinned, there they stood: the battle in Gabaa against the children of iniquity shall not overtake them. Osee Chapter 2 Israel is justly punished for leaving God. keywords: children; ephraim; god; hath; israel; lord; thee; thy cache: 8333.txt plain text: 8333.txt item: #346 of 418 id: 8334 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 34: Joel The Challoner Revision date: None words: 2507 flesch: 85 summary: To thee, O Lord, will I cry: because fire hath devoured the beautiful places of the wilderness: and the flame hath burnt all the trees of the country. 1:20. Yea, and the beasts of the field have looked up to thee, as a garden bed that thirsteth after rain, for the springs of waters are dried up, and fire hath devoured the beautiful places of the wilderness. keywords: hath; lord; people cache: 8334.txt plain text: 8334.txt item: #347 of 418 id: 8335 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 35: Amos The Challoner Revision date: None words: 5207 flesch: 88 summary: For thus saith Amos: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall be carried away captive out of their own land. THE HOLY BIBLE Translated from the Latin Vulgate Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and Other Editions in Divers Languages THE OLD TESTAMENT First Published by the English College at Douay A.D. 1609 & 1610 and THE NEW TESTAMENT First Published by the English College at Rheims A.D. 1582 With Annotations The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner A.D. 1749-1752 THE PROPHECY OF AMOS AMOS prophesied in Israel about the same time as Osee: and was called from following the cattle to denounce GOD'S judgments to the people of Israel, and the neighbouring nations, for their repeated crimes, in which they continued without repentance. keywords: god; house; israel; land; lord; lord god; saith cache: 8335.txt plain text: 8335.txt item: #348 of 418 id: 8336 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 36: Abdias The Challoner Revision date: None words: 940 flesch: 81 summary: But thou shalt not look on in the day of thy brother, in the day of his leaving his country: and thou shalt not rejoice over the children of Juda, in the day of their destruction: and thou shalt not magnify thy mouth in the day of distress. That is, thou shalt not speak arrogantly against the children of Juda as insulting them in their distress. keywords: thee; thou cache: 8336.txt plain text: 8336.txt item: #349 of 418 id: 8337 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 37: Jonas The Challoner Revision date: None words: 1849 flesch: 91 summary: Jonas Chapter 2 Jonas is swallowed up by a great fish: he prayeth with confidence in God; and the fish casteth him out on the dry land. And they cried to the Lord, and said: We beseech thee, O Lord let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, oh Lord, hast done as it pleased thee. 1:15. keywords: god; jonas; lord cache: 8337.txt plain text: 8337.txt item: #350 of 418 id: 8338 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 38: Micheas The Challoner Revision date: None words: 4745 flesch: 85 summary: And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off: and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into spades: nation shall not take sword against nation: neither shall they learn war anymore. Arise, and tread, O daughter of Sion: for I will make thy horn iron, and thy hoofs I will make brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many peoples, and shalt immolate the spoils of them to the Lord, and their strength to the Lord of the whole earth. keywords: god; lord; people; thee; thou; thy cache: 8338.txt plain text: 8338.txt item: #351 of 418 id: 8339 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 39: Nahum The Challoner Revision date: None words: 1759 flesch: 86 summary: There shall the fire devour thee: thou shalt perish by the sword, it shall devour thee like the bruchus: assemble together like the bruchus, make thyself many like the locust. He prophesied, after the ten tribes were carried into captivity, and foretold the utter destruction of Ninive, by the Babylonians and Medes: which happened in the reign of JOSIAS. keywords: lord; nahum; ninive; thee cache: 8339.txt plain text: 8339.txt item: #352 of 418 id: 8340 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 40: Habacuc The Challoner Revision date: None words: 2727 flesch: 87 summary: Thou hast devised confusion to thy house, thou hast cut off many people, and thy soul hath sinned. Why hast thou shewn me iniquity and grievance, to see rapine and injustice before me? keywords: god; lord; people; thou; thy cache: 8340.txt plain text: 8340.txt item: #353 of 418 id: 8341 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 41: Sophonias The Challoner Revision date: None words: 2144 flesch: 85 summary: And I will distress men, and they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord: and their blood shall be poured out as earth, and their bodies as dung. 1:18. I will gather man, and beast, I will gather the birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea: and the ungodly shall meet with ruin: and I will destroy men from off the face of the land, saith the Lord. 1:4. keywords: day; lord; people; thee cache: 8341.txt plain text: 8341.txt item: #354 of 418 id: 8342 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 42: Aggeus The Challoner Revision date: None words: 1583 flesch: 86 summary: Is it time for you to dwell in ceiled houses, and this house lie desolate? 1:5. Yet now take courage, O Zorobabel, saith the Lord, and take courage, Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest, and take courage, all ye people of the land, saith the Lord of hosts: and perform (for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts) 2:6. keywords: hosts; lord; saith cache: 8342.txt plain text: 8342.txt item: #355 of 418 id: 8343 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 43: Zacharias The Challoner Revision date: None words: 8973 flesch: 89 summary: The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan: and the Lord that chose Jerusalem rebuke thee: Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? 3:3. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem: and every man with his staff in his hand through multitude of days. keywords: day; god; hosts; house; jerusalem; land; lord; saith; thou cache: 8343.txt plain text: 8343.txt item: #356 of 418 id: 8344 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 44: Malachias The Challoner Revision date: None words: 2431 flesch: 87 summary: I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will not receive a gift of your hand. 1:11. If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will send poverty upon you, and will curse your blessings, yea I will curse them, because you have not laid it to heart. keywords: god; hosts; lord; saith cache: 8344.txt plain text: 8344.txt item: #357 of 418 id: 8345 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 45: 1 Machabees The Challoner Revision date: None words: 25545 flesch: 87 summary: And he grieved many kings, and made Jacob glad with his works, and his memory is blessed for ever. 3:8. And king Demetrius heard of it, and gathered together an exceeding great army, and went forth against him to fight. keywords: antiochus; army; brethren; city; country; day; demetrius; israel; jerusalem; jonathan; judas; king; land; men; people; simon cache: 8345.txt plain text: 8345.txt item: #358 of 418 id: 8346 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 46: 2 Machabees The Challoner Revision date: None words: 18549 flesch: 80 summary: Now the mother was to be admired above measure, and worthy to be remembered by good men, who beheld her seven sons slain in the space of one day, and bore it with a good courage, for the hope that she had in God: 7:21. And I shall leave an example of fortitude to young men, if with a ready mind and constancy I suffer an honourable death, for the most venerable and most holy laws. keywords: antiochus; city; day; god; holy; jerusalem; jews; judas; king; lord; man; men; nicanor; place; temple; things cache: 8346.txt plain text: 8346.txt item: #359 of 418 id: 8347 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew The Challoner Revision date: None words: 28954 flesch: 91 summary: And Jesus came into the quarters of Cesarea Philippi: and he asked his disciples, saying: Whom do men say that the Son of man is? 16:14. And when they abode together in Galilee, Jesus said to them: The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men: 17:22. keywords: christ; come; disciples; father; god; hath; heaven; jesus; kingdom; lord; man; men; saith; son; thee; things; thou; thy cache: 8347.txt plain text: 8347.txt item: #360 of 418 id: 8348 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 48: Mark The Challoner Revision date: None words: 16441 flesch: 94 summary: And he taught his disciples and said to them: The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise again the third day. For leaving the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, the washing of pots and of cups: and many other things you do like to these. keywords: disciples; god; jesus; man; saith; saying; son; thee; things; thou; thy cache: 8348.txt plain text: 8348.txt item: #361 of 418 id: 8349 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 49: Luke The Challoner Revision date: None words: 28621 flesch: 93 summary: But while all wondered at all the things he did, he said to his disciples: Lay you up in your hearts these words, for it shall come to pass that the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men. And I say to you: Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God. keywords: behold; day; father; god; hath; house; jesus; kingdom; lord; man; men; saying; son; thee; things; thou; thy cache: 8349.txt plain text: 8349.txt item: #362 of 418 id: 8350 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 50: John The Challoner Revision date: None words: 22173 flesch: 95 summary: And the wine failing, the mother of Jesus saith to him: They have no wine. 2:4. Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 17:4. keywords: father; god; hath; jesus; jews; know; man; saith; things; thou; world cache: 8350.txt plain text: 8350.txt item: #363 of 418 id: 8351 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 51: Acts The Challoner Revision date: None words: 26559 flesch: 90 summary: But certain men, adhering to him, did believe: among whom was also Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them. And there were certain men, seven sons of Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest, that did this. keywords: day; god; hath; jerusalem; jesus; jews; lord; man; men; paul; people; peter; saying; thee; things; thou cache: 8351.txt plain text: 8351.txt item: #364 of 418 id: 8352 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 52: Romans The Challoner Revision date: None words: 13067 flesch: 88 summary: Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God. 1:2. Who was predestinated the Son of God in power, according to the spirit of sanctification, by the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead: Predestinated, etc... Christ as man, was predestinated to be the Son of God: and declared to be so (as the apostle here signifies) keywords: christ; faith; god; grace; hath; justice; law; lord; man; sin; thou cache: 8352.txt plain text: 8352.txt item: #365 of 418 id: 8353 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 53: 1 Corinthians The Challoner Revision date: None words: 12129 flesch: 90 summary: Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes a brother, 1:2. To the church of God that is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place of theirs and ours. keywords: body; christ; god; hath; lord; man; spirit; things; world cache: 8353.txt plain text: 8353.txt item: #366 of 418 id: 8354 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 54: 2 Corinthians The Challoner Revision date: None words: 7080 flesch: 86 summary: Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother: to the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints that are in all Achaia: 1:2. Grace unto you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. keywords: christ; glory; god; hath; lord; man; things cache: 8354.txt plain text: 8354.txt item: #367 of 418 id: 8355 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 55: Galatians The Challoner Revision date: None words: 3895 flesch: 87 summary: But knowing that man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we also believe in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified. Paul, an apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead: 1:2. keywords: christ; faith; god; law cache: 8355.txt plain text: 8355.txt item: #368 of 418 id: 8356 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 56: Ephesians The Challoner Revision date: None words: 3728 flesch: 85 summary: Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to all the saints who are at Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with spiritual blessings in heavenly places, in Christ: keywords: christ; god; jesus; lord; things cache: 8356.txt plain text: 8356.txt item: #369 of 418 id: 8357 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 57: Philippians The Challoner Revision date: None words: 2883 flesch: 83 summary: Paul and Timothy, the servants of Jesus Christ: to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons. Furthermore, I count all things to be but loss for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them but as dung, that I may gain Christ. 3:9. keywords: christ; god; jesus; things cache: 8357.txt plain text: 8357.txt item: #370 of 418 id: 8358 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 58: Colossians The Challoner Revision date: None words: 2953 flesch: 81 summary: Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timothy, a brother: 1:2. Grace be to you and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. keywords: christ; god; jesus; things cache: 8358.txt plain text: 8358.txt item: #371 of 418 id: 8359 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 59: 1 Thessalonians The Challoner Revision date: None words: 2275 flesch: 87 summary: Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians: in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ. Being mindful of the work of your faith and labour and charity: and of the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Father. 1:4. keywords: brethren; god; lord cache: 8359.txt plain text: 8359.txt item: #372 of 418 id: 8360 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 60: 2 Thessalonians The Challoner Revision date: None words: 1534 flesch: 83 summary: In a flame of fire, giving vengeance to them who know not God and who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1:9. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God and our Father, who hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope in grace, 2:16. keywords: god; lord cache: 8360.txt plain text: 8360.txt item: #373 of 418 id: 8361 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 61: 1 Timothy The Challoner Revision date: None words: 2970 flesch: 82 summary: Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the commandment of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope: 1:2. Grace, mercy and peace, from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Lord. keywords: christ; faith; god; good; jesus cache: 8361.txt plain text: 8361.txt item: #374 of 418 id: 8362 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 62: 2 Timothy The Challoner Revision date: None words: 2117 flesch: 85 summary: Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus: 1:2. Grace, mercy and peace, from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Lord. keywords: christ; god; lord; thou cache: 8362.txt plain text: 8362.txt item: #375 of 418 id: 8363 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 63: Titus The Challoner Revision date: None words: 1266 flesch: 81 summary: In all things shew thyself an example of good works, in doctrine, in integrity, in gravity, 2:8. And let our men also learn to excel in good works for necessary uses: that they be not unfruitful. keywords: god; men; things cache: 8363.txt plain text: 8363.txt item: #376 of 418 id: 8364 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 64: Philemon The Challoner Revision date: None words: 710 flesch: 81 summary: Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy, a brother: to Philemon, our beloved and fellow labourer, 1:2. That the communication of thy faith may be made evident in the acknowledgment of every good work that is in you in Christ Jesus. 1:7. keywords: jesus; thee cache: 8364.txt plain text: 8364.txt item: #377 of 418 id: 8365 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 65: Hebrews The Challoner Revision date: None words: 8678 flesch: 85 summary: Hebrews Chapter 1 God spoke of old by the prophets, but now by his Son, who is incomparably greater than the angels. 1:1. God, who, at sundry times and in divers manners, spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets, last of all, 1:2. keywords: blood; christ; faith; god; hath; law; priest; testament; things cache: 8365.txt plain text: 8365.txt item: #378 of 418 id: 8366 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 66: James The Challoner Revision date: None words: 3176 flesch: 89 summary: By it we bless God and the Father: and by it we curse men who are made after the likeness of God. Hence the precept here means, that we must confess to men whom God hath appointed, and who, by their ordination and jurisdiction, have received the power of remitting sins in his name. keywords: brethren; faith; god; lord; man cache: 8366.txt plain text: 8366.txt item: #379 of 418 id: 8367 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 67: 1 Peter The Challoner Revision date: None words: 3074 flesch: 81 summary: According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, unto the sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Whereunto baptism, being of the like form, now saveth you also: not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but, the examination of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. keywords: christ; glory; god; good; jesus cache: 8367.txt plain text: 8367.txt item: #380 of 418 id: 8368 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 68: 2 Peter The Challoner Revision date: None words: 2044 flesch: 80 summary: For in sight and hearing he was just, dwelling among them who from day to day vexed the just soul with unjust works. 2:9. For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the ever-lasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. keywords: christ; day; lord; things cache: 8368.txt plain text: 8368.txt item: #381 of 418 id: 8369 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 69: 1 John The Challoner Revision date: None words: 4488 flesch: 89 summary: Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God. 4:16. We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not: but the generation of God preserveth him and the wicked one toucheth him not. keywords: god; hath; sin; world cache: 8369.txt plain text: 8369.txt item: #382 of 418 id: 8370 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 70: 2 John The Challoner Revision date: None words: 659 flesch: 77 summary: This admonition is in general, to forewarn the faithful of the dangers which may arise from a familiarity with those who have prevaricated and gone from the true faith, and with such as teach false doctrine. This eBook was produced by David Widger from etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia and Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome. keywords: god; truth cache: 8370.txt plain text: 8370.txt item: #383 of 418 id: 8371 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 71: 3 John The Challoner Revision date: None words: 489 flesch: 86 summary: JOHN THE APOSTLE St. John praises Gaius for his walking in truth and for his charity, complains of the bad conduct of Diotrephes and gives a good testimony to Demetrius. These ministers of the gospel are commended by St. John, who took nothing from the Gentiles, lest they should seem to preach in order to get money by it. keywords: truth cache: 8371.txt plain text: 8371.txt item: #384 of 418 id: 8372 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 72: Jude The Challoner Revision date: None words: 1381 flesch: 69 summary: Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James: to them that are beloved in God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and called. 1:2. Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto life everlasting. keywords: christ; god; jesus cache: 8372.txt plain text: 8372.txt item: #385 of 418 id: 8373 author: None title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 73: Apocalypse The Challoner Revision date: None words: 15061 flesch: 91 summary: And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies: and power was given to him to do, two and forty months. And they rested not day and night, saying: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come. keywords: angel; beast; earth; god; hath; heaven; things; thou; throne; thy; voice cache: 8373.txt plain text: 8373.txt item: #386 of 418 id: 8381 author: Maclaren, Alexander title: Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI date: None words: 129318 flesch: 74 summary: Let me remind you that this great thought of the unity of life between Jesus Christ and all that believe upon Him is the familiar teaching of Scripture, and is set forth by other emblems besides that of the vine, the queen of the vegetable world; for we have it in the metaphor of the body and its members, where not only are the many members declared to be parts of one body, but the name of the collective body, made up of many members, is Christ. Separate from Christ, the individual shrivels, and the possibilities of fair buds wither and set into no fruit, and no man is the man he might have been unless he holds by Jesus Christ and lets His life come into him. keywords: answer; ask; christian; church; come; cross; day; death; disciples; divine; earth; fact; faith; father; friends; fruit; god; great; hand; heart; jesus christ; john; joy; life; light; look; lord; love; man; master; men; nature; need; note; order; people; peter; pilate; power; question; revelation; self; sin; son; spirit; teaching; things; thou; thought; time; truth; way; words; work; world cache: 8381.txt plain text: 8381.txt item: #387 of 418 id: 8397 author: Maclaren, Alexander title: Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts date: None words: 253108 flesch: 74 summary: Great men die, good men die; Jesus Christ is not dead. Great men have always to die, and get a halo of distance around them, before their true stature can be seen. keywords: acts; answer; apostles; away; barnabas; believe; brethren; character; christian; christianity; church; city; course; day; days; dead; death; disciples; divine; doubt; earth; end; fact; faith; forth; ghost; god; good; gospel; hand; hath; heart; heaven; help; holy; jerusalem; jesus christ; jews; john; law; life; light; lives; living; look; lord; lord jesus; love; luke; man; means; men; message; moment; nature; need; new; note; paul; people; peter; philip; place; point; power; present; question; reason; resurrection; saying; self; sense; servant; set; spirit; text; thee; things; think; thought; thy; time; trust; truth; use; vision; way; word; work; years cache: 8397.txt plain text: 8397.txt item: #388 of 418 id: 8566 author: Kent, Charles Foster title: The Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament date: None words: 50404 flesch: 60 summary: In the Hebrew text it still remains as the designation of the first group of Old Testament books which contain the bulk of Israel's laws. Now the events and characters of Old Testament history no longer stand alone in mysterious isolation, but we can study in detail their setting and real significance. keywords: authority; bible; books; church; day; divine; fact; form; god; great; hebrew; history; israel; jehovah; laws; life; literature; man; narratives; people; present; priestly; prophetic; prophets; proverbs; race; revelation; sidenote; study; teachings; testament; testament books; time; traditions; truth; work; writings cache: 8566.txt plain text: 8566.txt item: #389 of 418 id: 8827 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Preface and Introductions date: None words: 9766 flesch: 62 summary: The first was written by the Apostle Paul, probably in the early spring of 56 A.D., just before he left Ephesus for Troas in the course of his third missionary tour (Ac 19). The latest research tends to put 'Galatians' first, and 'Romans' last, in the period between 53 and 58 A. D. The date generally assigned to the Roman Letter is 58 A.D., but recently Harnack, McGiffert, Clemen and others have shown cause for putting it some four years earlier. keywords: a.d; apostle; book; church; date; english; gospel; greek; letter; new; paul; testament; translation cache: 8827.txt plain text: 8827.txt item: #390 of 418 id: 8828 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Matthew date: None words: 25253 flesch: 90 summary: 011:025 About that time Jesus exclaimed, I heartily praise Thee, Father, Lord of Heaven and of earth, that Thou hast hidden these things from sages and men of discernment, and hast unveiled them to babes. 017:022 As they were travelling about in Galilee, Jesus said to them, The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men; 017:023 they will put Him to death, but on the third day He will be raised to life again. keywords: day; disciples; father; god; good; heavens; house; jesus; john; kingdom; left; life; man; master; men; mother; people; pharisees; son; thou; thy; time cache: 8828.txt plain text: 8828.txt item: #391 of 418 id: 8829 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Mark date: None words: 15950 flesch: 91 summary: 010:014 Jesus, however, on seeing this, was moved to indignation, and said to them, Let the little children come to me: do not hinder them; for to those who are childlike the Kingdom of God belongs. 010:042 Jesus, however, called them to Him and said to them, You are aware how those who are deemed rulers among the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men make them feel their authority; 010:043 keywords: crowd; day; disciples; god; house; jesus; john; kingdom; life; man; men; people; son; spirit; time cache: 8829.txt plain text: 8829.txt item: #392 of 418 id: 8830 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Luke date: None words: 27562 flesch: 91 summary: 001:025 Thus has the Lord dealt with me, she said, now that He has graciously taken away my reproach among men. 002:014 Glory be to God in the highest Heavens, And on earth peace among men who please Him! keywords: coming; day; disciples; father; god; good; house; jerusalem; jesus; john; kingdom; life; lord; man; master; men; people; son; spirit; things; thy; time; town; way cache: 8830.txt plain text: 8830.txt item: #393 of 418 id: 8831 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, John date: None words: 21345 flesch: 93 summary: Now as soon as the Master was aware that the Pharisees had heard it said, Jesus is gaining and baptizing more disciples than John-- 004:002 though Jesus Himself did not baptize them, but 004:043 After the two days He departed, and went into Galilee; 004:044 though Jesus Himself declared that a Prophet has no honour in his own country. keywords: believe; disciples; father; god; jesus; jews; life; man; master; peter; son; time; truth; world cache: 8831.txt plain text: 8831.txt item: #394 of 418 id: 8832 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Acts date: None words: 26504 flesch: 86 summary: 010:040 That same Jesus God raised to life on the third day, and permitted Him to appear unmistakably, 010:041 not to all the people, but to witnesses--men previously chosen by God--namely, to us, who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead. So the jailer brought Paul word, saying, The praetors have sent orders for you to be released. keywords: apostles; brethren; city; day; disciples; god; good; holy; house; jerusalem; jesus; jews; lord; man; men; message; paul; people; peter; place; saul; spirit; temple; time cache: 8832.txt plain text: 8832.txt item: #395 of 418 id: 8833 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Romans date: None words: 11831 flesch: 84 summary: Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an Apostle, set apart to proclaim God's Good News, 001:002 which God had already promised through His Prophets in Holy Writ, concerning His Son, 001:003 who, as regards His human descent, belonged to the posterity of David, 001:004 but as regards the holiness of His Spirit was decisively proved by His Resurrection to be the Son of God--I mean concerning Jesus Christ our Lord, 001:005 through whom we have received grace and Apostleship in His service in order to win men to obedience to the faith, among all Gentile peoples, 001:006 among whom you also, called, as you have been, to belong to Jesus Christ, are numbered: keywords: christ; death; faith; god; good; jesus; law; life; lord; man; righteousness; sin cache: 8833.txt plain text: 8833.txt item: #396 of 418 id: 8834 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 1 Corinthians date: None words: 11604 flesch: 88 summary: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 1 Corinthians Third Edition 1913 R. F. Weymouth Book 46 1 Corinthians 001:001 Paul, called to be an Apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God--and our brother Sosthenes: 001:002 To the Church of God in Corinth, men and women consecrated in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ-- their Lord as well as ours. May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. keywords: body; brethren; christ; god; jesus; lord; man; men; spirit; things; woman; world cache: 8834.txt plain text: 8834.txt item: #397 of 418 id: 8835 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 2 Corinthians date: None words: 7556 flesch: 83 summary: 001:002 May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 001:019 For Jesus Christ the Son of God-- keywords: boast; christ; glory; god; jesus; lord; love; order; spirit cache: 8835.txt plain text: 8835.txt item: #398 of 418 id: 8836 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Galatians date: None words: 3804 flesch: 85 summary: by Jesus Christ and by God the Father, who raised Jesus from among the dead-- 001:002 and all the brethren who are with me: To the Churches of Galatia. May grace and peace be granted to you from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, 001:004 who gave Himself to suffer for our sins in order to rescue us from the present wicked age in accordance with the will of our God and Father. keywords: christ; faith; god; law; spirit cache: 8836.txt plain text: 8836.txt item: #399 of 418 id: 8837 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Ephesians date: None words: 3789 flesch: 79 summary: But God, being rich in mercy, because of the intense love which He bestowed on us, 002:005 caused us, dead though we were through our offences, to live with Christ--it is by grace that you have been saved-- 002:006 raised us with Him from the dead, and enthroned us with Him in the heavenly realms as being in Christ Jesus, 002:007 in order that, by His goodness to us in Christ Jesus, He might display in the Ages to come the transcendent riches of His grace. Always and for everything let your thanks to God the Father be presented in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; 005:021 and submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. keywords: christ; god; jesus; lord; love; spirit cache: 8837.txt plain text: 8837.txt item: #400 of 418 id: 8838 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Philippians date: None words: 2721 flesch: 83 summary: And it is my prayer that your love may be more and more accompanied by clear knowledge and keen perception, for testing things that differ, 001:010 so that you may be men of transparent character, and may be blameless, in preparation for the day of Christ, 001:011 being filled with these fruits of righteousness which come through Jesus Christ--to the glory and praise of God. For I know that it will result in my salvation through your prayers and a bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, 001:020 in fulfilment of my eager expectation and hope that I shall never have reason to feel ashamed, but that by my perfect freedom of speech Christ will be glorified in me, now as always, either by my life or by my death. keywords: christ; god; good; jesus cache: 8838.txt plain text: 8838.txt item: #401 of 418 id: 8839 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Colossians date: None words: 2483 flesch: 81 summary: We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, constantly praying for you as we do, 001:004 because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you cherish towards all God's people, 001:005 on account of the hope treasured up for you in Heaven. To the people of God and the believing brethren at Colossae who are in Christ. keywords: christ; god; lord; things cache: 8839.txt plain text: 8839.txt item: #402 of 418 id: 8840 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 1 Thessalonians date: None words: 2236 flesch: 86 summary: For we never fail to remember your works of faith and labours of love and your persistent and unwavering hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father; 001:004 knowing as we do, brethren, that you are beloved by God and that He has chosen you. For you, brethren, followed the example of the Churches of God in Christ Jesus which are in Judaea; seeing that you endured the same ill-treatment at the hands of your countrymen, as they did at the hands of the Jews. keywords: god; jesus; lord cache: 8840.txt plain text: 8840.txt item: #403 of 418 id: 8841 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 2 Thessalonians date: None words: 1287 flesch: 82 summary: To this blessing God has called you by our Good News, so that you may have a share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. To the Church of the Thessalonians which is in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. keywords: god; lord cache: 8841.txt plain text: 8841.txt item: #404 of 418 id: 8842 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 1 Timothy date: None words: 2843 flesch: 77 summary: 006:013 I charge you--as in the presence of God who gives life to all creatures, and of Christ Jesus who at the bar of Pontius Pilate made a noble profession of faith-- 006:014 that you keep God's commandments stainlessly and without reproach till the Appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. For there is but one God and but one Mediator between God and men-- Christ Jesus, Himself man; 002:006 who gave Himself as the redemption price for all--a fact testified to at its own appointed time, 002:007 and of which I have been appointed a herald and an Apostle (I am speaking the truth: it is not a fiction), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. keywords: christ; faith; god; jesus; man cache: 8842.txt plain text: 8842.txt item: #405 of 418 id: 8843 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 2 Timothy date: None words: 2099 flesch: 83 summary: Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God, for proclaiming the promise of the Life which is in Christ Jesus: 001:002 May grace, mercy and peace be granted to you from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. keywords: christ; god; jesus; lord cache: 8843.txt plain text: 8843.txt item: #406 of 418 id: 8844 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Titus date: None words: 1178 flesch: 76 summary: But when the goodness of God our Saviour, and His love to man, dawned upon us, not in consequence of things which we, 003:005 as righteous men, had done, but as the result of His own mercy He saved us by means of the bath of regeneration and the renewal of our natures by the Holy Spirit, 003:006 which He poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 003:007 in order that having been declared righteous through His grace we might become heirs to the Life of the Ages in fulfilment of our hopes. You must stop the mouths of such men, for they overthrow the faith of whole families, teaching what they ought not, just for the sake of making money. keywords: god; men cache: 8844.txt plain text: 8844.txt item: #407 of 418 id: 8845 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Philemon date: None words: 577 flesch: 85 summary: Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother: Therefore, though I might with Christ's authority speak very freely and order you to do what is fitting, 001:009 it is for love's sake that--instead of that--although I am none other than Paul the aged, and am now also a prisoner for Christ Jesus, 001:010 keywords: christ cache: 8845.txt plain text: 8845.txt item: #408 of 418 id: 8846 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Hebrews date: None words: 8502 flesch: 83 summary: Through faith Moses, when he grew to manhood, refused to be known as Pharaoh's daughter's son, 011:025 having determined to endure ill-treatment along with the people of God rather than enjoy the short-lived pleasures of sin; 011:026 because he deemed the reproaches which he might meet with in the service of the Christ to be greater riches than all the treasures of Egypt; for he fixed his gaze on the coming reward. Thou hast loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore God, Thy God, has anointed Thee with the oil of gladness beyond Thy companions. keywords: blood; day; faith; god; order; people; priest; sin; son; thou cache: 8846.txt plain text: 8846.txt item: #409 of 418 id: 8847 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, James date: None words: 2872 flesch: 89 summary: The sun rises with his scorching heat and dries up the herbage, so that its flowers drop off and the beauty of its appearance perishes, and in the same way rich men with all their prosperity will fade away. Although he has looked carefully at himself, he goes away, and has immediately forgotten the sort of man he is. keywords: brethren; faith; god; lord; man cache: 8847.txt plain text: 8847.txt item: #410 of 418 id: 8848 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 1 Peter date: None words: 2977 flesch: 82 summary: To God's own people scattered over the earth, who are living as foreigners in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Roman Asia, and Bithynia, 001:002 chosen in accordance with the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, with a view to their obedience and to their being sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ. 001:003 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in His great mercy has begotten us anew to an ever-living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 001:004 to an inheritance imperishable, undefiled and unfading, which has been reserved in Heaven for you, 001:005 whom God in His power is guarding through faith for a salvation that even now stands ready for unveiling at the End of the Age. keywords: christ; evil; god; good; jesus cache: 8848.txt plain text: 8848.txt item: #411 of 418 id: 8849 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 2 Peter date: None words: 1885 flesch: 81 summary: But when righteous Lot was sore distressed by the gross misconduct of immoral men He rescued him. 003:017 You, therefore, dear friends, having been warned beforehand, must continually be on your guard so as not to be led astray by the false teaching of immoral men nor fall from your own stedfastness. keywords: god; lord; men cache: 8849.txt plain text: 8849.txt item: #412 of 418 id: 8850 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 1 John date: None words: 2957 flesch: 90 summary: We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the Evil one. 004:002 The test by which you may recognize the Spirit of God is that every spirit which acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come as man is from God, 004:003 and that no spirit is from God which does not acknowledge this about Jesus. keywords: god; love cache: 8850.txt plain text: 8850.txt item: #413 of 418 id: 8851 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 2 John date: None words: 374 flesch: 89 summary: 001:003 Grace, mercy and peace will be with us from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ the Son of the Father, in truth and love. It is an intense joy to me to have found some of your children living true Christian lives, in obedience to the command which we have received from the Father. keywords: love cache: 8851.txt plain text: 8851.txt item: #414 of 418 id: 8852 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 3 John date: None words: 394 flesch: 93 summary: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 3 John Third Edition 1913 R. F. Weymouth Book 64 3 It is therefore our duty to show hospitality to such men, so that we may be fellow workers in promoting the truth. keywords: truth cache: 8852.txt plain text: 8852.txt item: #415 of 418 id: 8853 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Jude date: None words: 789 flesch: 75 summary: For certain persons have crept in unnoticed--men spoken of in ancient writings as pre-destined to this condemnation--ungodly men, who pervert the grace of our God into an excuse for immorality, and disown Jesus Christ, our only Sovereign and Lord. Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Jude Third Edition 1913 R. F. Weymouth Book 65 Jude 001:001 Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James: To those who are in God the Father, enfolded in His love, and kept for Jesus Christ, and called. keywords: lord; men cache: 8853.txt plain text: 8853.txt item: #416 of 418 id: 8854 author: Weymouth, Richard Francis title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Revelation date: None words: 13331 flesch: 90 summary: 011:016 Then the twenty-four Elders, who sit on thrones in the presence of God, fell on their faces and worshipped God, 011:017 saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God, the Ruler of all, Who art and wast, because Thou hast exerted Thy power, Thy great power, and hast become King. The last-named are the seven Spirits of God, and have been sent far and wide into all the earth. keywords: ages; angel; beast; city; earth; god; heaven; lamb; people; power; throne; voice cache: 8854.txt plain text: 8854.txt item: #417 of 418 id: 9492 author: McConnell, Francis John title: Understanding the Scriptures date: None words: 26150 flesch: 64 summary: To be sure, the early narratives employ expressions like the jealousy of God, but even a slightly sympathetic reading of the Scriptures indicates that the jealousy was directed against whatever would harm human life. It is impossible to feel that in discipleship with Jesus men were complacent about their own moral perfections on the one hand, or harassed with self-reproaches on the other. keywords: bible; book; christ; cross; day; divine; god; hebrew; human; ideal; jesus; life; men; moral; people; power; revelation; scriptures; spiritual; thought; time; truth; world cache: 9492.txt plain text: 9492.txt item: #418 of 418 id: 9880 author: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady title: The Woman's Bible date: None words: 141275 flesch: 73 summary: The thirty-two thousand women and women children were given to the soldiers and the priests. In making war on neighboring tribes, the Jewish military code permitted them to take all the pure, virgins and child women for booty to be given to the priests and soldiers, thus debauching the men of Israel and destroying all feelings of honor and chivalry for women. keywords: abraham; bible; book; chapter; character; children; christian; church; daughters; david; day; days; death; earth; fact; family; father; female; genesis; god; good; hand; hath; head; heart; history; house; human; husband; israel; jacob; jesus; jewish; john; king; knowledge; land; law; laws; life; like; lord; lord god; lord thy; love; male; marriage; men; moses; mother; new; paul; people; place; position; power; race; religion; sarah; saying; self; solomon; son; sons; soul; spirit; testament; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; truth; unto; water; way; wife; wisdom; wives; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 9880.txt plain text: 9880.txt