Job chapter 31

I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think on a maid?

For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

Does not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hurried to deceit;

Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know my integrity.

If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot has stuck to my hands;

Then let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out.

If my heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;

Then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down on her.

For this is an heinous crime; yes, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

What then shall I do when God rises up? and when he visits, what shall I answer him?

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless has not eaten thereof;

(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb; )

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

Then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, You are my confidence;

If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

And my heart has been secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand:

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the travelers.

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom:

Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.

Surely I would take it on my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

I would declare to him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near to him.

If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

Job chapter 32

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.

When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and you are very old; why I was afraid, and dared not show you my opinion.

I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding.

Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

Therefore I said, Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.

Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst you searched out what to say.

Yes, I attended to you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:

Lest you should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusts him down, not man.

Now he has not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.

They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.

When I had waited, (for they spoke not, but stood still, and answered no more; )

I said, I will answer also my part, I also will show my opinion.

For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constrains me.

Behold, my belly is as wine which has no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.

I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.

Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles to man.

For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

Galatians chapter 5

Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Behold, I Paul say to you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

Christ is become of no effect to you, whoever of you are justified by the law; you are fallen from grace.

For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which works by love.

You did run well; who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth?

This persuasion comes not of him that calls you.

A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

I have confidence in you through the Lord, that you will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he be.

And I, brothers, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offense of the cross ceased.

I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

For, brothers, you have been called to liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another.

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that you cannot do the things that you would.

But if you be led of the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, jealousies, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

Contentions, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Galatians chapter 6

Brothers, if a man be overtaken in a fault, you which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.

Bear you one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

For every man shall bear his own burden.

Let him that is taught in the word communicate to him that teaches in all good things.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap.

For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good to all men, especially to them who are of the household of faith.

You see how large a letter I have written to you with my own hand.

As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and on the Israel of God.

From now on let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

Brothers, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. To the Galatians written from Rome.

Job chapter 31

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