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For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation [is] to them an end of all strife.
¶ Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
I speak not [this] to condemn [you]: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with [you].
For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, [even] unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace [be] with you. Amen.
Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.
And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast [them] into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
¶ And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
¶ For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.
But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
¶ We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not [his] brother abideth in death.
And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with [you].
Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded [him] to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
¶ We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;
For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
¶ I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting [you] in remembrance;
Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
¶ Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
¶ But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
For God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
[Then] shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept [thereof], and he shall not make [it] good.
¶ The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
And he said, For [these] seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.
Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.
Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: [but] according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
¶ And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.
This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.
[As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place [where] the king [dwelleth] that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, [even] with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites [were] not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and [be] ready always to [give] an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne:
The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath:
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