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By faith Joseph, when he died made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.

By faith the parents of Moses, hid him for three months after his birth, because they saw that the infant boy was fair; and they were not afraid of the King''s commandment.

For they only for a short while, disciplined us as seemed good to them; but God corrects us for our advantage, that we might become partakers of his holiness.

Or lest any man among you be found immoral and weak like Esau, who sold his birthright for a morsel of meat.

And to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant, and to the sprinkling of his blood, which speaks a better message than Abel did.

Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify his people with his own blood, suffered outside the city.

Let us go forth therefore to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.

By him, therefore, let us always offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of the lips giving thanks to his name.

Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in us that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.

Let the rich man rejoice in his humbleness: because as the flower of the grass, so shall he pass away.

For as the sun rises with its burning heat and causes the grass to wither, and the flower to fall and its beauty to perish: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

But every man is tempted by his own lust; and he covets and is enticed.

It is he, who begot us of his own will with the word of truth, that we should be the firstfruits of his creatures.

For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man who sees his face in a mirror;

For he sees himself and goes his way, and forgets how he looked.

But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and abides in it, is not merely a hearer of the word which can be forgotten but a doer of the work, and this man shall be blessed in his work.

If any man thinks that he ministers to God, and does not control his tongue, he deceives his own heart, and this man''s ministry is in vain.

Was not our father Abraham justified by works, when he raised Isaac his son upon the altar?

You can see, how his faith helped his works, and how by works his faith was made perfect.