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Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,

Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.

And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.

Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,

Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.

If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:

Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:

And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.

And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.

God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.

The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.

Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.

Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.

He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.

A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.

Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.

Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.

And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house:

And the fame of him went out into every place of the country round about.

And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus.

For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.

In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.