American Standard Version of 1901
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Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
For I delight {Greek: with.}in the law of God after the inward man:
lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings,
that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that ye may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;
that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
and put on the new man, {Or, that is after God, created & c.}that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret shall recompense thee.
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret shall recompense thee.
unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of {Or, God who liveth Compare Daniel 6:26.}God, which liveth and abideth.
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Because Christ also {Many ancient authorities read died.}suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison,
For unto this end {Or, were the good tidings preached}was the gospel preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having {Or, a flask}an alabaster cruse of ointment of {Or, liquid nard}pure nard very costly; and she brake the cruse, and poured it over his head.
In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment;