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For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
For kings, and [for] all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
[A] devout [man], and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine [shewing] uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
¶ Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Neither as being lords over [God's] heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
¶ And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].
The eyes of the LORD [are] upon the righteous, and his ears [are open] unto their cry.
Many [are] the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that [pertain] unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt [there],
But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
¶ Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
¶ Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.
And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
¶ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
¶ Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
And honour not his father or his mother, [he shall be free]. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!
O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
¶ Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
¶ And when Peter saw [it], he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, [even] the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself [rather] unto godliness.
But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
¶ But godliness with contentment is great gain.
And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
¶ [Seeing] then [that] all these things shall be dissolved, what manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy conversation and godliness,
And when the angel which spake unto Cornelius was departed, he called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually;
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