Shouldn't I punish them for these things?" says the LORD; "and shouldn't my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
It will happen, when you say, 'Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us?' Then you shall say to them, 'Just like you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve strangers in a land that is not yours.'
"Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.
They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.
"Shall I not punish for these things?" says the LORD. "Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
"An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land.
but this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.
They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn't command, nor did it come into my mind.
Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth, until there be no place [to bury].
I will utterly consume them, says the LORD: no grapes shall be on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and [the things that] I have given them shall pass away from them.
The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembles; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the city and those who dwell therein.
Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
Shall I not visit them for these things? says the LORD; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
but let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am the LORD who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says the LORD.
There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skillful men.
The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: the LORD of Armies is his name.
the LORD, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.
They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.
If you say in your heart, Why are these things come on me? for the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts uncovered, and your heels suffer violence.
I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?
Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [her young], because there is no grass.
Then the LORD said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I didn't send them, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I to them: they prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.
Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, the LORD our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.
the LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in which there is no profit.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask now among the nations, who has heard such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.
and go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell you;
therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter.
Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.
Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all its gains, and all the precious things of it, yes, all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies; and they shall make them a prey, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.
the LORD, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me.
Touching the house of the king of Judah, hear the word of the LORD:
For if you do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.
For thus says the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, [and] who went forth out of this place: He shall not return there any more.
Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the LORD, and because of his holy words.
In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.
who think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.
When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king's house to the house of the LORD; and they sat in the entry of the new gate of the LORD's [house].
Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the LORD's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon:
Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus says the LORD: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon within two full years from off the neck of all the nations. The prophet Jeremiah went his way.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
Why do you cry for your hurt? Your pain is incurable: for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.
How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man.
Ah Lord the LORD! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for you,
and they came in, and possessed it, but they didn't obey your voice, neither walked in your law; they have done nothing of all that you commanded them to do: therefore you have caused all this evil to come on them.
Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?
They have turned to me the back, and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.
They built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through [the fire] to Molech; which I didn't command them, neither did it come into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don't know.
Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not he who can do anything against you.
Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet to him into the third entry that is in the house of the LORD: and the king said to Jeremiah, I will ask you something. Hide nothing from me.
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
and the LORD has brought it, and done according as he spoke: because you have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing has come on you.
But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, You shall not do this thing; for you speak falsely of Ishmael.
that the LORD your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the thing that we should do.
Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray to the LORD your God according to your words; and it shall happen that whatever thing the LORD shall answer you, I will declare it to you; I will keep nothing back from you.
then it shall happen, that the sword, which you fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, shall follow close behind you there in Egypt; and there you shall die.
and I have this day declared it to you; but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God in anything for which he has sent me to you.
However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, don't do this abominable thing that I hate.
But since we left off burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
Do you seek great things for yourself? Don't seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, says the LORD; but your life will I give to you for a prey in all places where you go.
At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers don't look back to their children for feebleness of hands;
Baldness is come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself?
I know his wrath, says the LORD, that it is nothing; his boastings have worked nothing.
Come against her from the utmost border; open her storehouses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.
The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and [Israel] is the tribe of his inheritance: the LORD of Armies is his name.
For thus says the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.
It happened in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the [first] year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison;
and changed his prison garments. [Jehoiachin] ate bread before him continually all the days of his life:
Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, "Does Job fear God for nothing?
Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.
"Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.
Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'
who does great things that can't be fathomed, marvelous things without number;
You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
"Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,
For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.
Is there injustice on my tongue? Can't my taste discern mischievous things?
"How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.
Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'
Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:
But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?
in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
"Only don't do two things to me; then I will not hide myself from your face:
For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:
though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
"But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;
But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns."
Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
"I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!
"Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.
Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;
yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
"Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.
There was nothing left that he didn't devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways.
For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such things are with him.
They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
If it isn't so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?"
He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.
He binds the streams that they don't trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.
"Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.
if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.
if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,
For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me.
He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
"Behold, God works all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,
If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you.
For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.'
"Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,'
"Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God's behalf.
After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his majesty. He doesn't hold back anything when his voice is heard.
God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things, which we can't comprehend.
Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
You whose clothing is warm, when the earth is still by reason of the south wind?
The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing.
Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor?
The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.
Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.
Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?
When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.
Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.
His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.
He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride."
"I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.
You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.
It was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has."
A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.
The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to the LORD, your God.
But I will remove the northern army far away from you, and will drive it into a barren and desolate land, its front into the eastern sea, and its back into the western sea; and its stench will come up, and its bad smell will rise." Surely he has done great things.
Land, don't be afraid. Be glad and rejoice, for the LORD has done great things.
The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.
My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.
Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.
These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.
As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don't need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
Whoever transgresses and doesn't remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn't have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son.
If anyone comes to you, and doesn't bring this teaching, don't receive him into your house, and don't welcome him,
Having many things to write to you, I don't want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full.
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.
because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.
I had many things to write to you, but I am unwilling to write to you with ink and pen;
All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it.
These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."
Jesus answered him, "Because I told you, 'I saw you underneath the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these!"
To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!"
The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?"
Nicodemus answered him, "How can these things be?"
Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don't understand these things?
If I told you earthly things and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized.
John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.
The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water?
The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah comes," (he who is called Christ). "When he has come, he will declare to us all things."
"Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?"
The disciples therefore said one to another, "Has anyone brought him something to eat?"
From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, "He told me everything that I did."
So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast.
After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you."
For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.
Jesus therefore answered them, "Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.
For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.
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.
But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.
He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
"You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
"Don't think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias.
When they were filled, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost."
This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.
He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world."
Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.
Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.
Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?
Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don't know.
The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."
They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger.
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."
Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.
He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him."
As he spoke these things, many believed in him.
I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father."
Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.
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 therefore answered, "I don't know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see."
If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."
Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"
Many came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true."
He said these things, and after that, he said to them, "Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep."
But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done.
But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all,
Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, "What do you think--that he isn't coming to the feast at all?"
His disciples didn't understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him."
While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light." Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.
Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.
I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak."
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came forth from God, and was going to God,
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to him, "Buy what things we need for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor.
If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
I have said these things to you, while still living with you.
But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.
I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.
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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