And Jacob
was left alone;
and there wrestled a man
with him
until the breaking
of the day.
And
when
he saw
that he
prevailed not against him,
he touched the hollow
of his thigh;
and
the hollow
of Jacob's thigh
was out of joint,
as he wrestled with him.
And he said,
Let me go,
for the day breaketh.
And he said,
I will not let
thee go,
except thou
bless me.
But my servant Caleb,
because
he had
another spirit
with him,
and hath followed me fully,
him will
I bring
into the land whereinto
he went;
and his seed
shall possess it.
But Joshua
the son
of Nun,
and Caleb
the son
of Jephunneh,
which were of the men
that
went to search
the land,
lived still.
Seek the LORD
and his strength,
seek
his face
continually.
The righteous
also shall hold on
his way,
and
he that
hath
clean
hands
shall be
stronger
and stronger.
Though he fall,
he shall not be
utterly cast down:
for the LORD
upholdeth him
with his hand.
Thou shalt guide me
with thy counsel,
and afterward receive me
to glory.
The LORD
will perfect
that which
concerneth me:
thy mercy,
O LORD,
endureth for ever:
forsake not the works
of thine own hands.
But the path
of the just is
as the shining light,
that shineth
more
and more
unto the perfect day.
And I
will make
an everlasting covenant
with them,
that I
will not turn away from them,
to do them good;
but I
will put
my fear
in their hearts,
that they
shall not depart from me.
Therefore turn
thou to thy God:
keep mercy
and judgment
and wait
on thy God continually.
But
he that
shall endure
unto the end,
the same
shall be saved.
Hearken;
Behold,
there went out
a sower
to sow:
And it
came
to pass,
as he sowed,
some fell
by the way side,
and the fowls
of the air
came
and devoured it up.
And some fell
on stony ground,
where it
had not much earth;
and immediately
it sprang up,
because
it had no depth
of earth:
But
when the sun
was up,
it was scorched;
and because
it
had no root,
it withered away.
And some fell
among thorns,
and the thorns grew up,
and choked it,
and it
yielded no fruit.
And other
fell
on good ground,
and did yield
fruit
that sprang up and increased;
and brought forth,
some thirty,
and some sixty,
and some
an hundred.
But one thing
is needful:
and Mary
hath chosen
that good part,
which shall not be taken away
from her.
And the Lord said,
Simon, Simon,
behold,
Satan
hath desired
to have you,
that he
may sift you
as wheat:
All
that the Father giveth me
shall come to me;
and him
that cometh to me
I will in no wise cast out.
And this
is the Father's
will
which hath sent me,
that of all which
he hath given me
I should lose
nothing,
but should raise it up
again at the last day.
And this
is the will
of him that
sent me,
that every one
which seeth the Son,
and believeth
on him,
may have
everlasting life:
and I
will raise
him up
at the last day.
Then said
Jesus to those Jews
which believed on him, If
ye continue
in my word,
then are
ye my disciples indeed;
And
ye shall know
the truth,
and the truth
shall make you free.
And
I give
unto them eternal life;
and
they shall never perish,
neither shall
any man
pluck them
out of my hand.
My Father,
which gave them me,
is greater than all;
and no man
is able
to pluck them
out of my Father's hand.
Abide in me,
and I in you.
As the branch cannot bear fruit
of itself,
except it
abide in
the vine;
no more
can ye,
except ye
abide in me.
I am the vine,
ye are the branches:
He that abideth in me,
and
I in him,
the same
bringeth forth much fruit:
for without me ye
can do nothing.
If ye
abide in me,
and my words
abide in you,
ye shall ask
what ye will,
and it
shall be done
unto you.
As the Father
hath loved me,
so have
I loved you:
continue ye in my love.
Who,
when he came,
and had seen
the grace of God,
was glad,
and exhorted them all,
that with purpose
of heart
they would cleave
unto the Lord.
Now
when the congregation
was broken up,
many of the Jews
and religious proselytes
followed Paul
and Barnabas:
who,
speaking to them,
persuaded them
to continue
in the grace
of God.
And
when
they had preached
the gospel to
that city,
and had taught many,
they returned again
to Lystra,
and to Iconium,
and Antioch,
Confirming the souls
of the disciples,
and exhorting them
to continue
in the faith,
and
that we
must through much tribulation
enter
into the kingdom
of God.
Who will render
to every man
according to his deeds:
To them
who by patient continuance
in well doing
seek for glory
and honour
and immortality,
eternal life:
Moreover whom
he did predestinate,
them he
also called:
and whom
he called,
them he
also justified:
and whom
he justified,
them he
also glorified.
Who shall lay
any thing
to the charge
of God's elect?
It is
God
that justifieth.
Who is
he that condemneth?
It is
Christ
that died,
yea rather,
that is risen again,
who is even
at the right hand
of God,
who also maketh intercession
for us.
Who shall separate us
from the love
of Christ?
shall tribulation,
or distress,
or persecution,
or famine,
or nakedness,
or peril,
or sword?
Nay,
in all
these things
we
are more than
conquerors
through him that
loved us.
For I
am persuaded,
that neither death,
nor life,
nor angels,
nor principalities,
nor powers,
nor things present,
nor things
to come,
Nor height,
nor depth,
nor any other creature,
shall be able
to separate us
from the love
of God,
which is in Christ Jesus
our Lord.
For the gifts
and calling
of God
are without repentance.
Who shall also confirm you
unto the end,
that ye
may be blameless
in the day
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God is faithful,
by whom
ye were called unto the fellowship
of his Son Jesus Christ
our Lord.
Moreover,
brethren,
I declare
unto you
the gospel
which I
preached
unto you,
which also
ye have received,
and
wherein ye stand;
By which also
ye are saved,
if ye
keep
in memory
what I
preached
unto you,
unless ye
have believed
in vain.
Therefore,
my beloved brethren,
be ye stedfast,
unmoveable,
always abounding
in the work
of the Lord,
forasmuch as ye
know
that your labour
is not in vain
in the Lord.
Watch ye,
stand fast
in the faith,
quit you like men,
be strong.
Now
he which
stablisheth us
with you
in Christ,
and hath anointed us,
is God;
Who hath also sealed us,
and given
the earnest
of the Spirit
in our hearts.
Wherefore
we labour,
that,
whether present
or absent,
we may be accepted of him.
And
that he
died
for all,
that they which live
should not henceforth live
unto themselves,
but
unto him
which died for them,
and rose again.
Stand
fast
therefore in the liberty
wherewith Christ
hath made us free,
and be not entangled again
with the yoke
of bondage.
I have confidence
in you
through the Lord,
that ye
will be none otherwise minded:
but he
that troubleth you
shall bear
his judgment,
whosoever he be.
And let us
not be
weary
in well doing:
for in due season
we shall reap,
if we
faint not.
That we
henceforth be
no more children,
tossed to and fro,
and carried about
with every wind
of doctrine,
by the sleight
of men,
and cunning craftiness,
whereby
they lie
in wait
to deceive;
Wherefore
take
unto you
the whole armour
of God,
that ye
may be able
to withstand
in the evil day,
and having done all,
to stand.
Praying always
with all prayer
and supplication
in the Spirit,
and watching thereunto
with all perseverance
and supplication
for all saints;
Being confident
of this very thing,
that he
which hath begun
a good work
in you
will perform it
until the day
of Jesus Christ:
Only let
your conversation
be as it
becometh
the gospel
of Christ:
that whether
I come
and see you,
or else
be absent,
I may hear
of your affairs,
that ye
stand
fast
in one spirit,
with one mind
striving together
for the faith
of the gospel;
Nevertheless,
whereto
we have already attained,
let us
walk
by the same rule,
let us mind
the same thing.
Therefore,
my brethren dearly beloved
and longed for,
my joy and crown,
so stand
fast in the Lord,
my dearly beloved.
That ye
might walk worthy
of the Lord
unto all pleasing,
being fruitful
in every good work,
and increasing
in the knowledge
of God;
In the body
of his flesh
through death,
to present
you holy
and unblameable
and unreproveable
in his sight:
If ye
continue
in the faith
grounded
and settled,
and be not moved away
from the hope
of the gospel,
which ye
have heard,
and which
was preached
to every creature
which is under heaven;
whereof
I Paul
am made
a minister;
Rooted
and
built up in him,
and stablished
in the faith,
as ye
have been taught,
abounding therein
with thanksgiving.
For now
we live,
if ye
stand
fast
in the Lord.
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.
Prove all things;
hold
fast
that which
is good.
Therefore,
brethren,
stand fast,
and hold
the traditions
which ye
have been taught,
whether by word,
or our epistle.
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself,
and God,
even our Father,
which hath loved us,
and hath given us
everlasting consolation
and good hope
through grace,
Comfort your hearts,
and stablish you
in every good word
and work.
But ye,
brethren,
be not
weary in well doing.
For the which cause
I also suffer
these things:
nevertheless
I am not ashamed:
for I
know whom I
have believed,
and am persuaded that
he is able
to keep
that which
I have committed
unto him
against that day.
Hold
fast
the form
of sound words,
which thou
hast heard of me,
in faith
and love which
is in Christ Jesus.
Thou therefore,
my son,
be strong
in the grace
that is
in Christ Jesus.
Thou therefore endure
hardness,
as a good soldier
of Jesus Christ.
But continue
thou
in the things which
thou hast learned
and
hast been assured of,
knowing of whom
thou hast learned them;
And the Lord
shall deliver me
from every evil work,
and will preserve me
unto his heavenly kingdom:
to whom
be glory
for ever and ever.
Amen.
Holding fast
the faithful word as he
hath been taught,
that he
may be able
by sound doctrine both
to exhort
and
to convince the gainsayers.
Therefore we
ought to give
the more earnest
heed
to the things
which we
have heard,
lest at any time
we should let them slip.
And Moses
verily was faithful
in all his house,
as a servant,
for a testimony
of those things
which were to be spoken after;
But Christ
as a son
over his own house;
whose house
are we,
if we
hold
fast the confidence
and the rejoicing
of the hope firm
unto the end.
For we
are made partakers
of Christ,
if we
hold the beginning
of our confidence
stedfast unto the end;
Seeing
then that
we have
a great high priest,
that is passed
into the heavens,
Jesus the Son
of God,
let us
hold
fast our profession.
Therefore leaving the principles
of the doctrine
of Christ,
let us
go on
unto perfection;
not laying again the foundation
of repentance
from dead works,
and of faith
toward God,
And we
desire that every one
of you
do shew
the same diligence
to the full assurance
of hope
unto the end:
That ye
be not slothful,
but followers
of them
who through faith
and patience
inherit the promises.
And so,
after he
had patiently endured,
he obtained
the promise.
Wherein God,
willing
more abundantly
to shew
unto the heirs
of promise
the immutability
of his counsel,
confirmed
it by an oath:
That by two immutable things,
in which it
was impossible
for God to lie,
we might have
a strong consolation,
who have fled
for refuge
to lay hold
upon the hope set
before us:
Let us
hold
fast the profession
of our faith
without wavering;
(for he
is faithful
that promised;)
Cast not away therefore your confidence,
which hath great recompence
of reward.
For ye
have
need
of patience,
that,
after ye
have done the will
of God,
ye might receive
the promise.
Wherefore seeing
we also are compassed about
with so great
a cloud
of witnesses,
let us
lay aside every weight,
and the sin which
doth so easily beset us,
and let us
run
with patience
the race
that is set
before us,
Looking unto Jesus
the author
and finisher
of our faith;
who for the joy
that was set
before him
endured the cross,
despising
the shame,
and is set down
at the right hand
of the throne
of God.
For consider him that
endured
such contradiction
of sinners
against himself,
lest
ye be wearied
and faint
in your minds.
Ye have not yet resisted
unto blood,
striving against sin.
And
ye have forgotten
the exhortation
which speaketh unto you as
unto children,
My son,
despise not
thou the chastening
of the Lord,
nor faint
when
thou art
rebuked of him:
For whom the Lord
loveth
he chasteneth,
and scourgeth every son whom
he receiveth.
If ye
endure chastening,
God dealeth with you as
with sons;
for what son
is
he whom
the father
chasteneth not?
But
if ye
be
without chastisement,
whereof all are
partakers,
then are
ye bastards,
and not sons.
Furthermore
we have had
fathers
of our flesh which
corrected us,
and
we gave them reverence:
shall
we not much rather
be in subjection
unto the Father
of spirits,
and live?
For they
verily for a
few days
chastened us
after their own pleasure;
but
he for our profit,
that we
might be partakers
of his holiness.
Now no
chastening
for the present
seemeth
to be joyous,
but grievous:
nevertheless afterward
it yieldeth
the peaceable fruit
of righteousness
unto them which
are exercised
thereby.
Wherefore lift
up the hands
which hang down,
and the feeble knees;
And make straight paths
for your feet,
lest
that which
is lame
be turned
out of the way;
but let it
rather be healed.
Looking diligently
lest any man
fail of the grace
of God;
lest any root
of bitterness
springing
up trouble you,
and thereby many
be defiled;
Be not carried about
with divers
and strange doctrines.
For it
is a good thing
that the heart
be established
with grace;
not with meats,
which have not profited them
that have been occupied
therein.
Let us
go forth therefore unto him
without the camp,
bearing his reproach.
But let patience
have her perfect work,
that ye
may be
perfect and entire,
wanting nothing.
Blessed is the man
that endureth temptation:
for when
he is tried,
he shall receive the crown
of life,
which the Lord
hath promised
to them that love him.
But
whoso looketh
into the perfect law
of liberty,
and continueth
therein,
he being not
a forgetful hearer,
but a doer
of the work,
this man
shall be blessed
in his deed.
Take,
my brethren,
the prophets,
who have spoken
in the name
of the Lord,
for an example
of suffering affliction,
and
of patience.
Behold,
we count them happy which endure.
Ye have heard
of the patience
of Job,
and have seen
the end
of the Lord;
that the Lord
is very pitiful,
and of tender mercy.
To an inheritance incorruptible,
and undefiled,
and that
fadeth
not away,
reserved
in heaven
for you,
Who are kept
by the power
of God
through faith
unto salvation ready
to be revealed
in the last time.
Wherein ye
greatly rejoice,
though now for a season,
if need be,
ye are in heaviness
through manifold temptations:
That the trial
of your faith,
being much more precious
than of gold
that perisheth,
though it
be tried
with fire,
might be found
unto praise
and honour
and glory
at the appearing
of Jesus Christ:
Be sober,
be vigilant;
because your adversary
the devil,
as a roaring lion,
walketh about,
seeking whom
he may devour:
Wherefore the rather,
brethren,
give diligence
to make your calling
and election sure:
for if
ye do
these things,
ye shall never fall:
For so
an entrance
shall be ministered
unto you
abundantly into the everlasting kingdom
of our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Ye therefore,
beloved,
seeing
ye know
these things
before,
beware lest
ye also,
being led away
with the error
of the wicked,
fall
from your own stedfastness.
But grow
in grace,
and
in the knowledge
of our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ.
To him
be glory both
now and
for ever.
Amen.
They went out from us,
but
they
were not of us;
for if
they
had been of us,
they
would
no doubt
have continued with us:
but
they went out,
that they
might be made
manifest
that they
were not all of us.
But the anointing
which ye
have received
of him abideth
in you,
and
ye need not
that any man
teach you:
but as the same anointing
teacheth you
of all things,
and is truth,
and is
no lie,
and
even as
it hath taught you,
ye shall abide in him.
He that
hath an ear,
let him
hear
what the Spirit
saith unto the churches;
To him that
overcometh
will
I give
to eat
of the tree
of life,
which is in the midst
of the paradise
of God.
Fear none of those things which
thou shalt suffer:
behold,
the devil
shall cast
some of you
into prison,
that ye
may be tried;
and
ye shall have
tribulation ten days:
be thou faithful
unto death,
and I
will give
thee a crown
of life.
He that
hath an ear,
let him
hear
what the Spirit
saith unto the churches;
He
that overcometh
shall not be hurt
of the second death.
He that
hath an ear,
let him
hear
what the Spirit
saith unto the churches;
To him that
overcometh
will
I give
to eat
of the hidden manna,
and will give him
a white stone,
and in the stone
a new name written,
which no man
knoweth
saving
he that
receiveth it.
But
that which
ye have already
hold
fast
till I come.
And he
that overcometh,
and keepeth
my works
unto the end,
to him
will
I give
power
over the nations:
And
he shall rule them
with a rod
of iron;
as the vessels
of a potter
shall
they be broken
to shivers:
even as
I received
of my Father.
And
I will give him
the morning star.
He that overcometh,
the same
shall be clothed
in white raiment;
and
I will not blot
out his name
out of the book
of life,
but
I will confess
his name
before my Father,
and
before his angels.
Behold,
I come quickly:
hold that fast which
thou hast,
that no man
take thy crown.
Him that overcometh
will
I make a pillar
in the temple
of my God,
and
he shall go no more out:
and
I will write
upon him the name
of my God,
and the name
of the city
of my God,
which is new Jerusalem,
which cometh down out of heaven
from my God:
and
I will write
upon him my new name.
To him
that overcometh
will
I grant to
sit with me
in my throne,
even as
I also overcame,
and am set down
with my Father
in his throne.
Here is the patience
of the saints:
here
are
they that
keep
the commandments
of God,
and the faith
of Jesus.
Behold,
I come
as a thief.
Blessed
is
he that watcheth,
and keepeth his garments,
lest
he walk naked,
and
they see
his shame.
He that
overcometh
shall inherit
all things;
and
I will be
his God,
and
he shall be
my son.
But the fearful,
and unbelieving,
and the abominable,
and murderers,
and whoremongers,
and sorcerers,
and idolaters,
and all liars,
shall have their part
in the lake
which burneth
with fire
and brimstone:
which is the second death.
He that is unjust,
let him
be unjust still:
and he which
is filthy,
let him
be filthy still:
and
he that is righteous,
let him
be righteous still:
and
he that is holy,
let him
be holy still.