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For we know him that hath said, Vengeance is mine; I will recompence: and again, The Lord will judge his people.

By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained a testimony that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it, being dead he yet speaketh.

By faith Enoch was translated so as not to see death, and was not found, because God had translated him; for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his houshold, by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

By faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac, and he that had received the promises, offered up his only begotten son:

By Faith Jacob when dying blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.

By faith Joseph, when dying, made mention of the children of Israel, and gave commandment concerning his bones.

By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months, by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

If ye endure chastning, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he, whom his father chastneth not?

For they, verily, for a few days chastned us as they thought good: but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright:

Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people by his own blood, suffered without the gate.

Let us then go forth to him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

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

Make you perfect in every good work, to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight thro' Christ Jesus; to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

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

For the sun arose with a burning heat, and withered the grass, and the flower fell off, and the beauty of it's appearance perished: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own desire and inticed.

Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

For if any one be an hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a glass.