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whose voice the earth shook then, and now hath he promised, saying, `Yet once -- I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven;'

for we have not here an abiding city, but the coming one we seek;

and he who did look into the perfect law -- that of liberty, and did continue there, this one -- not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work -- this one shall be happy in his doing.

If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain [is] the religion;

But say may some one, Thou hast faith, and I have works, shew me thy faith out of thy works, and I will shew thee out of my works my faith:

this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like,

Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;

to whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were ministering these, which now were told to you (through those who did proclaim good news to you,) in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, to which things messengers do desire to bend looking.

but according as He who did call you [is] holy, ye also, become holy in all behaviour,

but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted -- Christ's --

being begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God -- living and remaining -- to the age;

to whom coming -- a living stone -- by men, indeed, having been disapproved of, but with God choice, precious,

as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;

The domestics! be subjecting yourselves in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the cross;

for what renown [is it], if sinning and being buffeted, ye do endure [it]? but if, doing good and suffering [for it], ye do endure, this [is] gracious with God,

for ye were as sheep going astray, but ye turned back now to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.

but -- the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,

but if ye also should suffer because of righteousness, happy [are ye]! and of their fear be not afraid, nor be troubled,

also to which an antitype doth now save us -- baptism, (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the question of a good conscience in regard to God,) through the rising again of Jesus Christ,

no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;