But he himself turned again from the quarries that [were] by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.
It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image [was] before mine eyes, [there was] silence, and I heard a voice, [saying],
Unto me [men] gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, [and] went not out of the door?
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
[This] thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O LORD, be not far from me.
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether [such an one] as thyself: [but] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.
A Song [or] Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
Unless the LORD [had been] my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to silence;
Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew [their] strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, [which] shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence.
Behold, [it is] written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, [and] keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon him.
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it [is] an evil time.
And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: [there shall be] many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast [them] forth with silence.
But the LORD [is] in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.
Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto [them] in the Hebrew tongue, saying,
(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but [they are commanded] to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
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In Mark 12:30 Jesus said;
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And the second Mark 12:31 [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
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The First Book of Adam and Eve. Books 1 begins immediately after the expulsion from the Garden of Eden. We learn about the fall but also of the promise to save Adam and his decendents. The story depicts mans struggle against evil, the devil and sin.
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The Infancy of Jesus Christ (Infancy Gospel of Thomas) relates the life of Jesus from the ages of five to twelve. It is believed that the document was transcribed from oral traditions some time prior to the second century. The ancient writing is possibly Gnostic and many early church leaders considered it heretical.
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