and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is this day.
"Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore left you them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned, and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times you delivered them according to your mercies,
and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they dealt proudly, and didn't listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances, (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.
Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet would they not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.
Also Bakbukiah and Unno, their brothers, were over against them according to their offices.
The chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers over against them, to praise and give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch next to watch.
because they didn't meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: however our God turned the curse into a blessing.
Then I commanded, and they cleansed the rooms: and there brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meal offerings and the frankincense.
In those days saw I in Judah some men treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys [therewith]; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I testified [against them] in the day in which they sold food.
Then I testified against them, and said to them, "Why do you stay around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you." From that time on, they didn't come on the Sabbath.
Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?"
"Speak to the children of Israel: 'When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against the LORD, and that soul is guilty;
and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken in the act;
When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people.
When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before the LORD your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.
The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who will give us flesh to eat?
"Say to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you will eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, "Who will give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt." Therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and you will eat.
While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.
Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.
With him I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see the LORD's form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?"
The anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed.
Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord, please don't count this sin against us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned.
the LORD said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn't she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again."
Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the people didn't travel until Miriam was brought in again.
But the men who went up with him said, "We aren't able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we."
All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!
Only don't rebel against the LORD, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over them, and the LORD is with us. Don't fear them."
"How long [shall I bear] with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,
I, the LORD, have spoken, surely this will I do to all this evil congregation, who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die."
The men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,
and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, "You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and the LORD is among them: why then lift yourselves up above the assembly of the LORD?"
Therefore you and all your company are gathered together against the LORD: and Aaron, what is he that you murmur against him?"
Korah assembled all the congregation against them to the door of the Tent of Meeting: and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the congregation.
even the censers of these sinners against their own lives; and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD; therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel."
But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, "You have killed the LORD's people!"
It happened, when the congregation was assembled against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the Tent of Meeting: and behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.
It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you."
the LORD said to Moses, "Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, that they not die."
There was no water for the congregation: and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you."
He said, "You shall not pass through." Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.
"Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.
The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.
The people spoke against God, and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread."
The people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, because we have spoken against the LORD, and against you. Pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us." Moses prayed for the people.
Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz; and he fought against Israel.
For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.
They turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
He said to them, "Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak to me." The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.
'Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it covers the surface of the earth: now, come curse me them; perhaps I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.'"
Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.
God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of the LORD placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.
The donkey saw the angel of the LORD, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he struck her again.
Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, "I have sinned; for I didn't know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again."
Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.
Israel joined himself to Baal Peor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram, who were called of the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD,
"Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah: but he died in his own sin; and he had no sons.
because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes." (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)
"But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, [even] everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against her.
Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute the LORD's vengeance on Midian.
They warred against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they killed every male.
Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of the LORD.
the LORD's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, who had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people."
"But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD; and be sure your sin will find you out.
"'Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.
"'You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord the LORD says about Edom. We have heard news from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, "Arise, and let's rise up against her in battle.
All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him."
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.
I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.
Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, Rejoice!
For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:
Don't say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you," when you have it by you.
Don't devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death."
There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.
A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.
He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.
An evil man seeks only rebellion; therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against the LORD.
A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.
The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.
An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won't be blessed in the end.
When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.
"They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don't feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another."
Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place:
for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don't deceive with your lips.
A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.
A man's pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.
the greyhound, the male goat also; and the king against whom there is no rising up.
The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.
The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his Anointed, saying,
the LORD, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me on every side.
Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.
Arise, the LORD, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him;" Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.
He who doesn't slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
he who doesn't lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken. A Poem by David.
I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again until they are consumed.
For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.
Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.
Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.
Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
the LORD's face is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.
Contend, the LORD, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.
But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.
For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!"
Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.
Don't let the foot of pride come against me. Don't let the hand of the wicked drive me away.
Don't fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.
The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.
I said, "the LORD, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you."
My enemies speak evil against me: "When will he die, and his name perish?"
All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.
Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.
Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.
You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.
"Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son.
Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.
There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.
For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.
Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.
For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.
He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, although there are many who oppose me.
He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.
My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.
All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.
For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, the LORD.
God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.
Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain.
He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. Don't let the rebellious rise up against him. Selah.
The Lord said, "I will bring you again from Bashan, I will bring you again from the depths of the sea;
You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
Increase my honor, and comfort me again.
God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
Don't forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A Psalm by Asaph. A song.
Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
Therefore the LORD heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,
when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of the fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel.
He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn't keep his testimonies;
Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.
Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
the LORD God of Armies, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,
Turn us again, the LORD God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved. For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph.
I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.
Won't you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?
I will hear what God, the LORD, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.
God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don't hold regard for you before them.
So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won't dash your foot against a stone.
My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.
Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they don't turn again to cover the earth.
He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.
He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn't rebel against his words.
because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.
Therefore the LORD burned with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance.
because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.
They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.
Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.
for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
This is the reward of my adversaries from the LORD, of those who speak evil against my soul.
I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.
if it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us;
then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;
Restore our fortunes again, the LORD, like the streams in the Negev.
He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves. A Song of Ascents. By Solomon.
many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.
Remember, the LORD, against the children of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; who said, "Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!"
Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock. By David.
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.
For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.
the LORD, don't I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don't let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
But I have this against you, that you left your first love.
But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.
But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, "Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land."
They told me, "You must prophesy again over many peoples, nations, languages, and kings."
He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven.
These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings. They also will overcome who are with him, called and chosen and faithful."
For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.' Every shipmaster, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,
I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his army.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.
We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.
Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be."
but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"
What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies.
But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"
God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:
They also, if they don't continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
"Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?"
For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
Again he says, "Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people."
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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