In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.
It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also from that don't withdraw your hand; for he who fears God will come forth from them all.
I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes."
Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.
Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.
then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.
I say, "Keep the king's command!" because of the oath to God.
For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; all is before them.
Go your way--eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:
who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of his glory.
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.
So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,
and to know Christ's love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you;
of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.
and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ;
until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;
and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
Don't grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;
Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Therefore, put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;
Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
A copy of a letter, which Jeremiah sent to those who were to be led as captives into Babylon by the king of the Babylonians, to testify to them, as it was commanded him by God.
"Because of the sins which you have committed before God, you shall be led away as captives into Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar king of the Babylonians.
and it shall manifestly appear to all nations and kings that they are no gods, but are the works of men's hands, and that there is no work of God in them.
And when God commands the clouds to go over the whole world, they do as they are directed.
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, "I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.
Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to the LORD your God, that he may also take away from me this death."
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