The One Year Bible KJV (233 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
27
 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
28
 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
29
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Are
all apostles?
are
all prophets?
are
all teachers?
are
all workers of miracles?
30
 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
31
 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
13:
1
 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become
as
sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2
 And though I have
the gift of
prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3
 And though I bestow all my goods to feed
the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
4
 Charity suffereth long,
and
is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5
 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6
 rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7
 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8
 Charity never faileth: but whether
there be
prophecies, they shall fail; whether
there be
tongues, they shall cease; whether
there be
knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9
 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10
 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11
 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12
 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13
 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these
is
charity.
A Psalm
of David.
1
 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
2
 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
3
 Trust in the L
ORD
, and do good;
so
shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
4
 Delight thyself also in the L
ORD
; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
5
 Commit thy way unto the L
ORD
; trust also in him; and he shall bring
it
to pass.
6
 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
7
 Rest in the L
ORD
, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
8
 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
9
 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the L
ORD
, they shall inherit the earth.
10
 For yet a little while, and the wicked
shall
not
be:
yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it
shall
not
be.
11
 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
23
 Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
24
 Proud
and
haughty scorner
is
his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.
1
 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name
was
Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
2
 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
3
 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
4
 And his sons went and feasted
in their
houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
5
 And it was so, when the days of
their
feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings
according
to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
6
 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the L
ORD
, and Satan came also among them.
7
 And the L
ORD
said unto Satan, Whence comest thou?
Then Satan answered the L
ORD
, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
8
 And the L
ORD
said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that
there is
none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
9
 Then Satan answered the L
ORD
, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
10
 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
11
 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
12
 And the L
ORD
said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath
is
in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the L
ORD
.
13
 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters
were
eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
14
 and there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
15
 and the Sabeans fell
upon them,
and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
16
 While he
was
yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
17
 While he
was
yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
18
 While he
was
yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters
were
eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
19
 and, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
20
 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
21
 and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the L
ORD
gave, and the L
ORD
hath taken away; blessed be the name of the L
ORD
.
22
 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
2:
1
 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the L
ORD
, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the L
ORD
.
2
 And the L
ORD
said unto Satan, From whence comest thou?
And Satan answered the L
ORD
, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
3
 And the L
ORD
said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that
there is
none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
4
 And Satan answered the L
ORD
, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
5
 But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
6
 And the L
ORD
said unto Satan, Behold, he
is
in thine hand; but save his life.
7
 So went Satan forth from the presence of the L
ORD
, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
8
 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
9
 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
10
 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
11
 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
12
 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
13
 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that
his
grief was very great.
3:
1
 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
2
 And Job spake, and said,
3
 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night
in which
it was said, There is a man child conceived.
4
 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5
 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6
 As
for
that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
7
 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
8
 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
9
 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but
have
none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
10
 Because it shut not up the doors of my
mother's
womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11
 Why died I not from the womb?
why
did I
not
give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12
 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
13
 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
14
 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
15
 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
16
 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants
which
never saw light.
17
 There the wicked cease
from
troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
18
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There
the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
19
 The small and great are there; and the servant
is
free from his master.
20
 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter
in
soul;
21
 Which long for death, but it
cometh
not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22
 Which rejoice exceedingly,
and
are glad, when they can find the grave?
23
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Why is light given
to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
24
 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
25
 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
26
 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
