"Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.
Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.
Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,
The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.
Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.
They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit."
"I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!
"Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?
"Earth, don't cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.
My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
For when a few years are come, I shall go the way of no return.
For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.
My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.
"Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.
I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.
Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,
The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise up against him.
Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.
Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,
Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.
For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.
They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
"They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.
He devours the barren who don't bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.
They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
"Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places.
He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.
Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"
I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.
Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'
For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky.
then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, and searched it out.
To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"
For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:
the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.
So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction have come on me.
if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,
"If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,
if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;
and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn't go out of the door--
oh that I had one to hear me! (behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment!
I would declare to him the number of my steps. as a prince would I go near to him.
I said, 'Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.'
"Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, while you searched out what to say.
"However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words.
My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.
"Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,
Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.
"Hear my words, you wise men. Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.
For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.
Who put him in charge of the earth? or who has appointed him over the whole world?
If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,
"If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice of my words.
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.
Men of understanding will tell me, yes, every wise man who hears me:
who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'
Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.
"Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God's behalf.
He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
"But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don't cry for help when he binds them.
He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.
Behold, God is great, and we don't know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
"Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.
Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, the sound that goes out of his mouth.
He sends it forth under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.
After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his majesty. He doesn't hold back anything when his voice is heard.
For he says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth;' likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.
You whose clothing is warm, when the earth is still by reason of the south wind?
Now men don't see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them.
Therefore men revere him. He doesn't regard any who are wise of heart."
"Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?
Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.
By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?
Can you lead forth the constellations in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?
when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?
"Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?
He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.
The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing.
For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,
She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,
He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed, neither does he turn back from the sword.
The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.
Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?
One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.
If one attacks him with the sword, it can't prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.
After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, to four generations.
Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses, and as horsemen, so do they run.
The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
"Yet even now," says the LORD, "turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning."
Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
Don't be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.
I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.
I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.
Proclaim this among the nations: "Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up.
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, 'I am strong.'
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near, in the valley of decision.
the LORD will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but the LORD will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.
That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life
that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.
Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.
Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.
Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?
And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,
because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
Beloved, if our hearts don't condemn us, we have boldness toward God;
and every spirit who doesn't confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.
They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.
Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.
The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
One of the two who heard John, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.
The Jews therefore said, "It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?"
The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don't know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."
If I told you earthly things and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized.
He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.
He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.
What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.
Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.
They said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world."
When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
"Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will live.
Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,
I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don't seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.
"You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid.
However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
It is written in the prophets, 'They will all be taught by God.' Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.
Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?"
Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.
Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet."
"Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"
They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee."
Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.
They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world."
But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this.
Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word.
He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don't hear, because you are not of God."
The Jews therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"
His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.
He answered them, "I told you already, and you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don't also want to become his disciples, do you?"
Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind.
Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"
Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"
I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God's Son may be glorified by it."
When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.
Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away.
Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house.
When she heard this, she arose quickly, and went to him.
But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all,
Now he didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.
A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign.
Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
The multitude therefore, who stood by and heard it, said that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him."
And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself."
The multitude answered him, "We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up?' Who is this Son of Man?"
"He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them."
During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,
"Don't let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.
He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.
Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than I.
Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
"In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.
"I have yet many things to tell you, but you can't bear them now.
However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.
Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it, and struck the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.
and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, these know the things which I said."
One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Didn't I see you in the garden with him?"
They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn't enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!"
When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called "The Pavement," but in Hebrew, "Gabbatha."
He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called "The Place of a Skull," which is called in Hebrew, "Golgotha,"
Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.
Then they said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be," that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, "They parted my garments among them. For my cloak they cast lots." Therefore the soldiers did these things.
However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus' body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body.
Then because of the Jews' Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.
Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.
When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, "Peace be to you."
That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It's the Lord!" So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat around him (for he was naked), and threw himself into the sea.
He said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land."
Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD, and made vows.
He said, "I called because of my affliction to the LORD. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.
For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, the LORD my God.
and she said to the men, "I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.
As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, neither did there remain any more spirit in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.
Now therefore, please swear to me by the LORD, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a true token;
The men said to her, "We will be guiltless of this your oath which you have made us to swear.
But if you talk about this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you have made us to swear."
Joshua rose up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They lodged there before they passed over.
and they commanded the people, saying, "When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall move from your place, and follow it.
Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Don't come near to it, that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before."
You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, 'When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.'"
Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of the LORD your God."
Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.
It shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap."
On that day, the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
"Command the priests who bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of the Jordan."
that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty; that you may fear the LORD your God forever.'"
It happened, when all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how that the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we had passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.
Most of the teaching of Jesus are recorded in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The Complete Sayings of Jesus presents every word spoken by Jesus in one place and provides an index to assist in finding specific ocassions, places and/or events. It is a must read aid for serious Bible study.
He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, saith the Lord. These are the words of Christ; and they direct us to imitate his life and character. The Imitation of Christ is guide to following the example of Jesus Christ. Let it be our most earnest study to dwell upon the life and example of Jesus.
The Apocrypha books are 14 books that were included between the old and new testaments in the original King James Version of the bible and many others. Church leaders agreed that these books were valuable for instruction in life and manners, but did not all agree that they should be considered cannon.
The Childrens Bible provides bible lessons from the Old and New testaments. There are 216 stories written in plain english. The stories are easy to read and understand but they are not just for childern. It is a pleasure to read and enjoy these important stories.
Let us love one another, for love comes from God and every one who loves is a child of God and knows God. He who loves not man does not know God, for God is love. God showed his love for us, for he sent his only Son into the world that through him we might have life. Love the stranger.
In Mark 12:30 Jesus said;
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this [is] the first commandment.
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.
The Gospel of The Birth of Mary was attributed to St. Matthew and was received as genuine and authentic by early Christians. It is to be found in the works of Jerome, a Father of the Church in the 4th century and is translated from his collection.
The Book of Enoch is ascribed to the great-grandfather of Noah and is included in the cannon of some churches. It describes the fall of the angels (watchers), visions of heaven and hell and the birth of Noah. Quotes from the book of Enoch are found in the New Testament.
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.
The Second Book of Adam and Eve. Discusses Adam's sorrow and death. The history of the patriarchs who lived before the Flood until the birth of Noah; the children of Seth on Mount Hermon and Cain's death. It ends with the testament and translation of Enoch.
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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