2 war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and 'covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and 1Gr. 3 war; ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and are jealous. receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend 3 break your marriage vow to God. Or, saith in vain, 4 Or, The dwell in us for even Or, That 4 it in your pleasures. Ye 2 adulteresses, know ye not That is, who that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world 5 maketh himself an enemy of God. Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which 6 he made to dwell in us long unto envying? But he giveth more grace. Wherefore the scripture saith, God spirit which resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. he made to 7 Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, he yearneth 8 and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and unto jealous he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sin- envy. 9 ners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded. Be spirit which afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be he made to 10 turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Hum- yearneth for ble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall jealous envy. exalt you. Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, read dwellspeaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, 12 but a judge. One only is the lawgiver and judge, even he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? 11 13 Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will 7 5 Go to now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries 2 that are coming upon you. Your riches are corrupted, 3 and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a in us us even unto 5 Some ancient authorities eth in us. 6 Gr. a greater grace. Gr. Instead saying. of your 1 Or, unto 2 Gr. presence. 3 Or, he 4 Or, endurance 5 Or, let yours be the and yea, yea, the nay, nay Compare Matt. v. 37. 6 anointed testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days. Be- 4 hold, the hire of the labourers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. Ye have lived delicately 5 on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. Ye have 6 condemned, ye have killed the righteous one; he doth not resist you. Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of 7 the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also 8 patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand. Murmur not, brethren, one a-9 gainst another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors. Take, brethren, 10 for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord. Be-11 hold, we call them blessed who endured: ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful. But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither 12 by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that fall not under judgement. ye 6 Is any among you suffering? let him pray. Is any 13 cheerful? let him sing praise. Is any among you sick? 14 let him call for the elders of the church; and let them Or, having pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall save him that 15 is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him. Confess 16 therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working. Elijah 17 was a man of like 'passions with us, and he prayed 'fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months. And he 18 7 Or, nature 8 Gr. with prayer. 8 19 prayed again; and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. My brethren, if any among you do err from the ancient 20 truth, and one convert him; let him know, that he 1 Some who converteth a sinner from the error of his way authorities shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multi- read know ye. tude of sins. 1 Or, God and the Father 2 Gr. glorified. 3 Gr. unto. THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PETER. PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect who 1 are sojourners of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the 2 foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus 3 Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, unto an inheritance incorrupti- 4 ble, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who by the power of God are 5 guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, 6 though now for a little while, if need, be, ye have been put to grief in manifold trials, that the proof 7 of your faith, being more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, might be found unto praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ: whom not having seen ye love; on 8 whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of 9 your souls. Concerning which salvation the prophets 10 sought and searched diligently, who' prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: searching what time 11 or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did point unto, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that should follow them. To whom it was revealed, that not unto 12 themselves, but unto you, did they minister these things, which now have been announced unto you through 3 13 them that preached the gospel unto you by the 1Gr. in. Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven; which things angels desire to look into. Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is 2 Gr. is being brought. to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus 14 Christ; as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of 15 your ignorance: but like as he who called you is Or, like the holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of who called 16 living; because it is written, Ye shall be holy; for you 17 I am holy. And if ye call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to each man's work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear: 18 knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of 19 life handed down from your fathers; but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, 20 even the blood of Christ: who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was mani21 fested at the end of the times for your sake, who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith 22 and hope might be in God. Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from 23 the heart fervently: having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the 24 word of God, which liveth and abideth. For, All flesh is as grass, 25 2 5 And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. 6 6 But the word of the Lord abideth for ever. And this is the word of good tidings which was preached unto you. Many ancient authorities read from a clean heart. 5 Or, God who liveth 6 Gr. saying. 7 Or, malice Gr. belong Putting away therefore all' wickedness, and all guile, 2 and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salva- ing to the 3 tion; if ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious: 4 unto whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed of reason. |