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Popular passages
Page 36 - Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
Page 48 - And while the lamp holds out to burn The vilest sinner may return.
Page 52 - Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast Save in the death of Christ my God ! All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.
Page 98 - Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Page 54 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering: for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind, and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
Page 136 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
Page 58 - And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the- kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire: 48 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 136 - He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Page 135 - He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he that 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.
Page 45 - I came to see you, because my mother is very sick, and we are too poor to get food and medicine. I thought...