American Standard Version of 1901
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Come, and hear, all ye that fear God,And I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness; {The word God, in place of He who, rests on no sufficient ancient evidence. Some ancient authorities read which.}He who was manifested in the flesh,Justified in the spirit,Seen of angels,Preached among the {Or, Gentiles}nations,Believed on in the world,Received up in glory.
But we all, with unveiled face {Or, reflecting as a mirror}beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.
Concerning which salvation the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
And lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, save Jesus only.
But we behold him who hath been made {Or, for a little while lower}a little lower than the angels, even Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for every man.
Having then a great high priest, who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?
Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
And turning to the disciples, he said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see:
For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Take us the foxes, the little foxes,That spoil the vineyards;For our vineyards are in blossom.
Rejoice in the Lord always: again I will say, Rejoice.
Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if {Or, it}he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.