American Standard Version of 1901
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His disciples remembered that it was written, {Psalm 69:9.}Zeal for thy house shall eat me up.
But the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy,
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love {Greek: buildeth up.}edifieth.
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:
{Or, they that are moved by love do it, knowing &c.}the one do it of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the {Greek: good tidings: and so elsewhere; see marginal note on Matthew 4:23.}gospel;
Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?
For judgment is without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.
For the {Or, a wrath}wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who {Or, hold the truth Compare 1 Corinthians 7:30 (Greek)}hinder the truth in unrighteousness;
and knowest {Or, the Will}his will, and {Or, dost distinguish the things that differ}approvest the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
a {Or, an instructor}corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;