Isaiah 52Isaiah 531 Timothy 6Isaiah 52
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Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision.
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Make yourself clean from the dust up! and take the seat of your power, O Jerusalem: the bands of your neck are loose, O prisoned daughter of Zion.
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For the Lord says, You were given for nothing, and you will be made free without price.
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For the Lord God says, My people went down at first into Egypt, to get a place for themselves there: and the Assyrian put a cruel yoke on them without cause.
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Now then, what have I here? says the Lord, for my people are taken away without cause they are made waste and give cries of sorrow, says the Lord, and all the day the nations put shame on my name.
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For this cause I will make my name clear to my people in that day they will be certain that it is my word which comes to them see, here am I.
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How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who comes with good news, who gives word of peace, saying that salvation is near who says to Zion, Your God is ruling!
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The voice of your watchmen! their voices are loud in song together for they will see him, eye to eye, when the Lord comes back to Zion.
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Give sounds of joy, make melody together, waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord has given comfort to his people, he has taken up the cause of Jerusalem.
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The Lord has let his holy arm be seen by the eyes of all nations and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
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Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing go out from among her be clean, you who take up the vessels of the Lord.
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For you will not go out suddenly, and you will not go in flight: for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will come after you to keep you.
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See, my servant will do well in his undertakings, he will be honoured, and lifted up, and be very high.
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As peoples were surprised at him, And his face was not beautiful, so as to be desired: his face was so changed by disease as to be unlike that of a man, and his form was no longer that of the sons of men.
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So will nations give him honour kings will keep quiet because of him: for what had not been made clear to them they will see and they will give their minds to what had not come to their ears.
Isaiah 53
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Who would have had faith in the word which has come to our ears, and to whom had the arm of the Lord been unveiled?
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For his growth was like that of a delicate plant before him, and like a root out of a dry place: he had no grace of form, to give us pleasure
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Men made sport of him, turning away from him he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.
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But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.
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But it was for our sins he was wounded, and for our evil doings he was crushed: he took the punishment by which we have peace, and by his wounds we are made well.
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We all went wandering like sheep going every one of us after his desire and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.
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Men were cruel to him, but he was gentle and quiet as a lamb taken to its death, and as a sheep before those who take her wool makes no sound, so he said not a word.
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They took away from him help and right, and who gave a thought to his fate? for he was cut off from the land of the living: he came to his death for the sin of my people.
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And they put his body into the earth with sinners, and his last resting-place was with the evil-doers, though he had done no wrong, and no deceit was in his mouth.
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And the Lord was pleased...see a seed, long life, ...will do well in his hand. ...
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...made clear his righteousness before men...had taken their sins on himself.
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For this cause he will have a heritage with the great, and he will have a part in the goods of war with the strong, because he gave up his life, and was numbered with the evil-doers taking on himself the sins of the people, and making prayer for the wrongdoers.
1 Timothy 6
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Let all who are servants under the yoke give all honour to their masters, so that no evil may be said against the name of God and his teaching.
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And let those whose masters are of the faith have respect for them because they are brothers, working for them the more readily, because those who take part in the good work are of the faith and are dear. Give orders and teaching about these things.
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If any man gives different teaching, not in agreement with the true words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the teaching which is in agreement with true religion,
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He has an over-high opinion of himself being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,
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Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.
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But true faith, with peace of mind, is of great profit:
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For we came into the world with nothing, and we are not able to take anything out
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But if we have food and a roof over us, let that be enough.
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But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.
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For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.
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But you, O man of God, keep yourself from these things, and go after righteousness, religion, faith, love, a quiet mind, gentle behaviour.
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Be fighting the good fight of the faith take for yourself the life eternal, for which you were marked out, and of which you gave witness in the eyes of all.
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I give you orders before God, the giver of life, and Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate gave witness to the faith,
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To keep the word untouched by evil, clear from all shame, till the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ:
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Which at the right time he will make clear, who is the eternal and only Ruler, King of kings, and Lord of lords
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Who only has life for ever, living in light to which no man may come near whom no man has seen or is able to see: to whom be honour and power for ever. So be it.
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Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use
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And to do good, having wealth in good works, being quick to give, taking part with one another
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Making ready for themselves a safe place for the time to come, so that the true life may be theirs.
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O Timothy, take good care of that which is given to you, turning away from the wrong and foolish talk and arguments of that knowledge which is falsely so named
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Through which some, who gave their minds to it, have been turned away from the faith. Grace be with you.
