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Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves, as the manner of some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

Partly, while ye were made a gazing-stock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, while ye became companions of them that were so used.

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which appeared.

Therefore there sprang even from one, and him as good as dead, [so many] as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea-shore innumerable.

Wherefore, seeing we also are encompassed with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:

And so terrible was the sight, [that] Moses said, I exceedingly fear and tremble:)

So that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.

For the sun hath no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and its flower falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

Behold also the ships, which though they are so great, and [are] driven by fierce winds, yet they are turned about with a very small helm, withersoever the governor willeth.

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire from hell.

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive-berries? or a vine, figs? so no fountain [can] yield both salt water and fresh.

But as he who hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of deportment.

For so is the will of God, that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

For [it is] better, if the will of God is so, that ye suffer for well-doing, than for evil-doing.