Isaiah 40Isaiah 41Titus 3Isaiah 40
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Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
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Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
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The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
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Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
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And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see [it] together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].
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The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh [is] grass, and all the goodliness thereof [is] as the flower of the field:
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The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass.
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The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
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O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength lift [it] up, be not afraid say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
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Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong [hand], and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward [is] with him, and his work before him.
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He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry [them] in his bosom, [and] shall gently lead those that are with young.
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Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
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Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or [being] his counsellor hath taught him?
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With whom took he counsel, and [who] instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
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Behold, the nations [are] as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
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And Lebanon [is] not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
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All nations before him [are] as nothing and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
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To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
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The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
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He that [is] so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree [that] will not rot he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, [that] shall not be moved.
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Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
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[It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
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That bringeth the princes to nothing he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
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Yea, they shall not be planted yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
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To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
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Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these [things], that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that [he is] strong in power not one faileth.
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Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
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Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, [that] the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? [there is] no searching of his understanding.
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He giveth power to the faint and to [them that have] no might he increaseth strength.
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Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
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But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength they shall mount up with wings as eagles they shall run, and not be weary [and] they shall walk, and not faint.
Isaiah 41
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Keep silence before me, O islands and let the people renew [their] strength: let them come near then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
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Who raised up the righteous [man] from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made [him] rule over kings? he gave [them] as the dust to his sword, [and] as driven stubble to his bow.
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He pursued them, [and] passed safely [even] by the way [that] he had not gone with his feet.
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Who hath wrought and done [it], calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last I [am] he.
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The isles saw [it], and feared the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.
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They helped every one his neighbour and [every one] said to his brother, Be of good courage.
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So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, [and] he that smootheth [with] the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It [is] ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, [that] it should not be moved.
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But thou, Israel, [art] my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
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[Thou] whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou [art] my servant I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
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Fear thou not for I [am] with thee: be not dismayed for I [am] thy God: I will strengthen thee yea, I will help thee yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
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Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing and they that strive with thee shall perish.
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Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, [even] them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
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For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not I will help thee.
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Fear not, thou worm Jacob, [and] ye men of Israel I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
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Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat [them] small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
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Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, [and] shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
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[When] the poor and needy seek water, and [there is] none, [and] their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
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I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
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I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree I will set in the desert the fir tree, [and] the pine, and the box tree together:
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That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
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Produce your cause, saith the LORD bring forth your strong [reasons], saith the King of Jacob.
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Let them bring [them] forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they [be], that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them or declare us things for to come.
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Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye [are] gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold [it] together.
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Behold, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination [is he that] chooseth you.
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I have raised up [one] from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as [upon] morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
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Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, [He is] righteous? yea, [there is] none that sheweth, yea, [there is] none that declareth, yea, [there is] none that heareth your words.
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The first [shall say] to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
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For I beheld, and [there was] no man even among them, and [there was] no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
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Behold, they [are] all vanity their works [are] nothing: their molten images [are] wind and confusion.
Titus 3
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Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
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To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, [but] gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
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For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another.
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But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
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Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost
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Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour
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That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
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[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. These things are good and profitable unto men.
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But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law for they are unprofitable and vain.
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A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject
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Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
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When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.
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Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.
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And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
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All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace [be] with you all. Amen. <<[It was written to Titus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Cretians, from Nicopolis of Macedonia.]>>
