Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: the LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.
Set up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm.
Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land.
We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion has covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.
and you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
and he burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire.
The pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for the house of the LORD. The brass of all these vessels was without weight.
His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
Haven't you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,
While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,
and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you."
the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."
Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
"But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,
My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.
They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded.
"Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.
For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
You shall be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you shall search, and shall take your rest in safety.
He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.
so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;
because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.
If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' because the root of the matter is found in me,
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
"Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.
The increase of his house shall depart. They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.
Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'
So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?"
Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.
He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.
Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,
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.
Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.
Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?
For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.
"If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;
"If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.
If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
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!
if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.
Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.
Shall I wait, because they don't speak, because they stand still, and answer no more?
Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?
For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
because they turned aside from following him, and wouldn't pay attention to any of his ways,
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.
Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.
I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.
There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
How much less when you say you don't see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!
But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance.
Whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come.
Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
"Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;
that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?
To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man;
to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to spring forth?
Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?
because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.
The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him.
Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that the LORD had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.
Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the LORD's house. The priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.
Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God's house.
Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of the LORD, your God, and cry to the LORD.
Isn't the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God?
How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
They rush on the city. They run on the wall. They climb up into the houses. They enter in at the windows like thieves.
"Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.
Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,
Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves together." Cause your mighty ones to come down there, the LORD.
"Let the nations arouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
It will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters, and a fountain will come forth from the house of the LORD, and will water the valley of Shittim.
Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
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.
But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.
I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.
Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.
unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.
By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
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.
Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.
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.
We love him, because he first loved us.
This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn't believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.
If anyone comes to you, and doesn't bring this teaching, don't receive him into your house, and don't welcome him,
because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.
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!"
His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."
But Jesus didn't trust himself to them, because he knew everyone,
and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.
He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
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.
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."
Many more believed because of his word.
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."
So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives." He believed, as did his whole house.
For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.
For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.
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.
You don't have his word living in you; because you don't believe him whom he sent.
"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.
A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick.
Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.
The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, "I am the bread which came down out of heaven."
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble?
He said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father."
After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled."
Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel because of it.
If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath?
I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."
They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.
So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.
Everyone went to his own house,
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.
Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, "Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?"
Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains forever.
I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.
Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word.
You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
But because I tell the truth, you don't believe me.
He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don't hear, because you are not of God."
Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, because he doesn't keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" There was division among them.
Therefore they asked the blind man again, "What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?" He said, "He is a prophet."
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.
The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the sheep.
Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.
Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.
But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.
The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."
do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?'
Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him."
Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house.
Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, "She is going to the tomb to weep there."
I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude that stands around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me."
Mary, therefore, took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.
because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.
For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign.
"Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? 'Father, save me from this time?' But for this cause I came to this time.
For this cause they couldn't believe, for Isaiah said again,
Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn't confess it, so that they wouldn't be put out of the synagogue,
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.
In my Father's house are many homes. If it weren't so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.
Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
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.
You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him who sent me.
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'
You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
"These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn't be caused to stumble.
They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.
about sin, because they don't believe in me;
about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won't see me any more;
about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.
Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;' and, 'Because I go to the Father?'"
A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.
for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God.
Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."
Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn't remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
Then because of the Jews' Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.
They told her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don't know where they have laid him."
Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed."
He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?" Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, "Do you have affection for me?" He said to him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.
Then they asked him, "Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are you?"
Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said to him, "What is this that you have done?" For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.
He said to them, "Take me up, and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; for I know that because of me this great storm is on you."
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.
the LORD God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine.
"Be strong and courageous; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.
Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, "Go, view the land, including Jericho." They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.
The king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, "Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered into your house; for they have come to spy out all the land."
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;
Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.
Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which you did let us down by. You shall gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father's household.
It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.
then you shall tell them, 'Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel 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.
For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn't listen to the voice of the LORD. the LORD swore to them that he wouldn't let them see the land which the LORD swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Their children, whom he raised up in their place, were circumcised by Joshua; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way.
Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.
So he caused the ark of the LORD to go around the city, going about it once. Then they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to the LORD. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, "Go into the prostitute's house, and bring out from there the woman and all that she has, as you swore to her."
They burnt the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron into the treasury of the LORD's house.
But Rahab the prostitute, her father's household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lived in the midst of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
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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