You are my battle axe and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms;
and with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider;
and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein; and with you will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin;
and with you will I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; and with you will I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke [of oxen]; and with you will I break in pieces governors and deputies.
The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of the LORD against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened.
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.
Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
Thus says the LORD of Armies: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.
The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster.
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.
All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.
The pots also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, took they away.
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.
A capital of brass was on it; and the height of the one capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of brass: and the second pillar also had like these, and pomegranates.
and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,
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.
and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you."
While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."
In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.
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."
So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job didn't sin with his lips.
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
"If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.
Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding 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;
They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
For you shall be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field shall be at peace with you.
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.
Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:
"Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."
"Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand.
He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.
"God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?
For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:
If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"
Surely then you shall lift up your face without spot; Yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:
"No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.
"With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.
They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
"Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
withdraw your hand far from me; and don't let your terror make me afraid.
Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass;
But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns."
"Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father.
he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers;
because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.
You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.
He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.
My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.
Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.
that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
"Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"
"How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?
If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.
Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.
His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.
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.
Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.
Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry.
"Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.
So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?"
Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?
You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
"Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you.
I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.
There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.
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.
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
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.
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
"Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places.
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
"How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.
I will teach you about the hand of God. That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
"This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
The deep says, 'It isn't in me.' The sea says, 'It isn't with me.'
It can't be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'
when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,
when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,
They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
"But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without anyone's help.
"Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.
You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.
You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.
I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
"I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
"If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit
then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.
"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,
(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother's womb);
if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;
(yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);
if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'
if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,
for he has not directed his words against me; neither will I answer him with your speeches.
For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me.
'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;
He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.
"Behold, God works all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,
to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.'
Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?
For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.'
In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.
'Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.'
I will answer you, and your companions with you.
Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge."
"Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God's behalf.
For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
He doesn't withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
But if they don't listen, they shall perish by the sword; they shall die without knowledge.
He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.
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.
Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.
Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?
Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome majesty.
"Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,
From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.
Can you lead forth the constellations in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?
She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,
"Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?
He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
"Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."
Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
"Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.
The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him.
Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare?
"Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord?
Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?
Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?
Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?
Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?
Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.
If one attacks him with the sword, it can't prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.
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.
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."
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.
For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.
The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men.
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.
The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.
The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
"Yet even now," says the LORD, "turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning."
the LORD answered his people, "Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied with them; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
You will have plenty to eat, and be satisfied, and will praise the name of the LORD, your God, who has dealt wondrously with you; and my people will never again be disappointed.
The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
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.
That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life
(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);
that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
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.
The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.
They went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
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.
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God's testimony which he has testified concerning his Son.
for the truth's sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:
Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
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.
Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.
I had many things to write to you, but I am unwilling to write to you with ink and pen;
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.
The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.
Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples,
He said to them, "Come, and see." They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.
Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage.
Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come."
Jesus said to them, "Fill the water pots with water." They filled them up to the brim.
The same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him."
Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness.
After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized.
There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John's disciples with some Jews about purification.
They came to John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him."
What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.
He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.
For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
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?
At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you speak with her?"
So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.
But he who was healed didn't know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.
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.
"If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.
Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples.
So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten.
Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force, to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn't entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone.
The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
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?
Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.
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.
But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her."
Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.
They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.
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."
I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father."
When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with the mud,
Jesus said to him, "You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you."
Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"
I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.
It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.
Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, "Let's go also, that we may die with him."
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."
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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