So this is what the Lord has said: Your wife will be a loose woman in the town, and your sons and your daughters will be put to the sword, and your land will be cut up into parts by a line; and you yourself will come to your end in an unclean land, and Israel will certainly be taken away a prisoner out of his land.
And am I not to have mercy on Nineveh, that great town, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons without the power of judging between right and left, as well as much cattle?
And the rest of Jacob will be among the mass of peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which may not be kept back by man, or be waiting for the sons of men.
And it will come about in the day of the Lord's offering, that I will send punishment on the rulers and the king's sons and all who are clothed in robes from strange lands.
Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.
And he said, These are the two sons of oil, whose place is by the Lord of all the earth.
For I have made Judah a bow bent for my use, I have made Ephraim the arrows of the bow; I will make your sons, O Zion, take up arms against your sons, O Greece, and will make you like the sword of a man of war.
He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness.
For I am the Lord, I am unchanged; and so you, O sons of Jacob, have not been cut off.
The son of Abraham was Isaac; and the son of Isaac was Jacob; and the sons of Jacob were Judah and his brothers;
And the sons of Judah were Perez and Zerah by Tamar; and the son of Perez was Hezron; and the son of Hezron was Ram;
And the sons of Josiah were Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the taking away to Babylon.
Happy are the peacemakers: for they will be named sons of God.
So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.
But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.
Truly I say to you, Among the sons of women there has not been a greater than John the Baptist: but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
And if I by Beelzebub send evil spirits out of men, by whom do your sons send them out? So let them be your judges.
And the field is the world; and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; and the evil seeds are the sons of the Evil One;
He says, Yes. And when he came into the house, Jesus said to him, What is your opinion, Simon? from whom do the kings of the earth get payment or tax? from their sons or from other people?
And when he said, From other people, Jesus said to him, Then are the sons free.
And because he was not able to make payment, his lord gave orders for him, and his wife, and his sons and daughters, and all he had, to be given for money, and payment to be made.
Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, giving him worship and making a request of him.
And he said to her, What is your desire? She says to him, Let my two sons be seated, the one at your right hand, and the other at your left, in your kingdom.
But how does it seem to you? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go and do work today in the vine-garden.
So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.
And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and became sad and very troubled.
Among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary, the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.
And to James, the son of Zebedee, and John, the brother of James, he gave the second name of Boanerges, which is, Sons of thunder:
Truly, I say to you, The sons of men will have forgiveness for all their sins and for all the evil words they say:
And he was unable to do any work of power there, but only to put his hands on one or two persons who were ill, and make them well.
And there came to him James and John, the sons of Zebedee, saying to him, Master, will you give us whatever may be our request?
And so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were working with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Have no fear; from this time forward you will be a fisher of men.
But be loving to those who are against you and do them good, and give them your money, not giving up hope, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons of the Most High: for he is kind to evil men, and to those who have hard hearts.
I say to you, Among all the sons of women, not one is greater than John: but he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.
And if I, by Beelzebul, send out evil spirits, by whose help do your sons send them out? so let them be your judges.
And they all gave reasons why they were not able to come. The first said to him, I have got a new field, and it is necessary for me to go and see it: I am full of regret that I am unable to come.
And he said, A certain man had two sons:
And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.
And Jesus said to them, The sons of this world are married and have wives;
And death has no more power over them, for they are equal to the angels, and are sons of God, being of those who will come back from the dead.
But before all this, they will take you and be very cruel to you, giving you up to the synagogues and to prisons, taking you before kings and rulers, because of my name.
You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.
In so far as you have the light, put your faith in the light so that you may become sons of light. With these words Jesus went away and for a time was not seen again by them.
Simon Peter, Thomas named Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were all together.
And it will come about, in the last days, says God, that I will send out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will have dreams:
You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth.
Then Joseph sent for Jacob his father and all his family, seventy-five persons.
And they were taken over to Shechem, and put to rest in the place which Abraham got for a price in silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
And at these words, Moses went in flight to the land of Midian, and was living there for a time, and had two sons.
Then Peter said, Truly, I see clearly that God is no respecter of persons:
But the Jews, being moved with envy, took with them certain low persons from among the common people, and getting together a great number of people, made an outcry in the town, attacking the house of Jason with the purpose of taking them out to the people.
And there were seven sons of a man named Sceva, a Jew and a chief priest, who did this.
And we were, in the ship, two hundred and seventy-six persons.
And all those who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
For you did not get the spirit of servants again to put you in fear, but the spirit of sons was given to you, by which we say, Abba, Father.
For the strong desire of every living thing is waiting for the revelation of the sons of God.
And not only so, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we have sorrow in our minds, waiting for the time when we will take our place as sons, that is, the salvation of our bodies.
Who are Israelites: who have the place of sons, and the glory, and the agreements with God, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the hope offered by God:
And in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they will be named the sons of the living God.
So we, though we are a number of persons, are one body in Christ, and are dependent on one another;
And it is right for such servants to be safe persons.
Because we, being a number of persons, are one bread, we are one body: for we all take part in the one bread.
You at the same time helping together by your prayer for us; so that for what has been given to us through a number of persons, praise may go up to God for us from all of them.
In blows, in prisons, in attacks, in hard work, in watchings, in going without food;
And will be a father to you; and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord, the ruler of all.
Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking foolishly) I am more so; I have had more experience of hard work, of prisons, of blows more than measure, of death.
Be certain, then, that those who are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.
Because you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
That he might make them free who were under the law, and that we might be given the place of sons.
And because you are sons, God has sent out the spirit of his Son into our hearts, saying, Abba, Father.
Because it is in the Writings, that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant-woman, and one by the free woman.
As we were designed before by him for the position of sons to himself, through Jesus Christ, in the good pleasure of his purpose,
Which in other generations was not given to the sons of men, but the revelation of it has now been made to his holy Apostles and prophets in the Spirit;
For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.
Because it was right for him, for whom and through whom all things have being, in guiding his sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation complete through pain.
And it is true that by the law, those of the sons of levi who have the position of priests may take a tenth part of the people's goods; that is to say, they take it from their brothers though these are the sons of Abraham.
By faith Jacob gave a blessing to the two sons of Joseph, when he was near to death; and gave God worship, supported by his stick.
By faith he kept the Passover, and put the sign of the blood on the houses, so that the angel of destruction might not put their oldest sons to death.
And others were tested by being laughed at or by blows, and even with chains and prisons:
And you have not kept in mind the word which says to you as to sons, My son, do not make little of the Lord's punishment, and do not give up hope when you are judged by him;
It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?
But if you have not that punishment of which we all have our part, then you are not true sons, but children of shame.
Who, in the days of Noah, went against God's orders; but God in his mercy kept back the punishment, while noah got ready the ark, in which a small number, that is to say eight persons, got salvation through water:
Seeing then that all these things are coming to such an end, what sort of persons is it right for you to be, in all holy behaviour and righteousness,
And in that hour there was a great earth-shock and a tenth part of the town came to destruction; and in the earth-shock seven thousand persons came to their end: and the rest were in fear, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
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