American Standard Version of 1901
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But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked:Thou art waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art become sleek;Then he forsook God who made him,And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
And let the prophets speak by two or three, and let the others {Greek: discriminate.}discern.
but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be wrath and indignation,
The Lord grant mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus: for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain;
Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:
But because I have spoken these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.
insomuch that they even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and {Or, pallets}couches, that, as Peter came by, at the least his shadow might overshadow some one of them.
insomuch that unto the sick were carried away from his body handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out.
But we beseech you, brethren, to know them that labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
and to esteem them exceeding highly in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
but of the Son he saith, {Psalm 14:6 f} { Or, Thy throne is God for &c.}Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever;And the sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of {The two oldest Greek manuscripts read his.}thy kingdom.
Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
And having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;
or he that exhorteth, to his exhorting: he that giveth, let him do it with {Greek: singleness.}liberality; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness.