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hath made him a liar, because he sin a sin which is not unto death,
believeth not the record that God
gave of his Son.

t 11 And this is the record, that
God hath given to us eternal life:
and this life is in his Son.
b 12 He that hath the Son, hath
life; and he that hath not the Son
of God, hath not life.

he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death:1 do not say that he shall pray for it

17 All unrighteousness is sim: and there is a sin not unto death.

18 We know that whosoever is born of God, sinneth not; but be 13 These things have I written that is begotten of God, keepe unto you that believe on the name himself, and that wicked o of the Son of God; that ye may toucheth him not.

wickedness.

know that ye have eternal life, t 19 And we know that we are of and that ye may believe on the God, and the whole world lieth it name of the Son of God. 14 And this is the confidencet 20 And we know that the S that we have in him, that if we of God is come, and hath given ask any thing according to his an understanding, that we may will, he heareth us: know him that is true; and are in him that is true, even in he Son Jesus Christ. This is the tru God, and eternal life.

15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

d 16 If any man see his brother

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d 21 Little children, keep your selves from idols. Amen.

¶ The Second Epistle of JOHN.

THE elder unto the elect lady, the commandment, That, as and her children, whom I have heard from the beginning love in the truth; and not I only, ye should walk in it. but also all they that have known the truth;

2 For the truth's sake which dwelleth in us, and shall be with

us for ever.

t 3 Grace be with you, mercy, and peace from God the Father,

7 For many deceivers are en tered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is comen the flesh. This is a deceiver, and an antichrist.

d 8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we

and from the Lord Jesus Christ, have wrought, but that we receive

the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

4 I rejoiced greatly, that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.

a full reward.

9 Whosoever transgresseth, abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He the abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.

d 5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new com-p 10 If there come any unto you. mandment unto thee, but that and bring not this doctrine, receive which we had from the beginning, him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: 11 For he that biddeth him God after his commandments. This is speed, is partaker of his evil deeds

that we love one another.

6 And this is love, that we walk

12 Having many things to write to you, I would not write with per and ink: but I trust to

to face, that our joy may be full.

13 The children of thy elect me unto you, and speak face sister greet thee. Amen.

The Third Epistle of JOHN.

HE elder unto the well-belov-Diotrephes, who loveth to have ed Gaius, whom I love in the the pre-eminence among them, receiveth us not.

ruth. 2 Beloved, I wish above all p 10 Wherefore, if I come, I will aings that thou mayest prosper remember his deeds which he doand be in health, even as thy soul eth, prating against us with malirospereth. cious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church. d 11 Beloved, follow not which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

3 For I rejoiced greatly, when he brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.

d 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. 5 Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers;

6 Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well:

that

12 Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the truth itself: yea, and we also bear record; and ye know that our record is true.

13 I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen

7 Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking no-write unto thee: thing of the Gentiles.

14 But I trust I shall shortly

8 We therefore ought to receive see thee, and we shall speak face such, that we might be fellow-to face. helpers to the truth.

Peace be to thee. Our

friends salute thee. Greet the

9 I wrote unto the church: but friends by name.

JUDE, ine

T The General Epistle of JUDE.
servant of Jesus, t 4 For there are

certain men

Christ, and brother of James, crept in unawares, who were beto them that are sanctified by God fore of old ordained to this comthe Father, and preserved in Jesus demnation, ungodly men, turning Christ, and called: the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

b2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

d 3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

g 5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

t 6 And the angels which kept saying, Behold, the Lord cometh not their first estate, but left their with ten thousand of his saints, own habitation, he hath reserved t 15 To execute judgment upon in everlasting chains under dark- all, and to convince all that are ness unto the judgment of the ungodly among them of all their great day. ungodly deeds which they have t7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, ungodly committed, and of all and the cities about them in like their hard speeches which ungodly manner, giving themselves over to sinners have spoken against him. fornication, and going after strange p 16 These are murmurers, com flesh, are set forth for an exam-plainers, walking after their own ple, suffering the vengeance of lusts; and their mouth speaketh eternal fire. great swelling words, having men's P 8 Likewise also these filthy persons in admiration because of dreamers defile the flesh, despise advantage. dominion, and speak evil of dig- d 17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken be fore of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

nities.

9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil, he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

19 These be they who separate

c 10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but themselves, sensual, having not what they know naturally, as the Spirit.

brute beasts, in those things they d 20 But ye, beloved, building up corrupt themselves. yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

w 11 Wo unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

21 Keep yourselves in the lowe of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

22 And of some have compas sion, making a difference:

i 12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without 23 And others save with fear, fear: clouds they are without wa-pulling them out of the fire; hating ter, carried about of winds; trees even the garment spotted by the whose fruit withereth, without flesh.

fruit, twice dead, plucked up by b 24 Now unto him that is able to the roots; keep you from falling, and to pre13 Raging waves of the sea, sent you faultless before the prefoaming out their own shame; sence of his glory with exceeding wandering stars, to whom is re-joy. served the blackness of darkness. 25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dor 14 And Enoch also, the seventh minion and power, both now and from Adam, prophesied of these, ever. Amen.

for ever.

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The REVELATÍON of St. JOHN the Divine. CHAP. I. Lord's day, and heard behind me HE Revelation of Jesus Christ, a great voice, as of a trumpet, which God gave unto him, g 11 Saying, I am Alpha and shew unto his servants things Omega, the first and the last: and, hich must shortly come to pass; What thou seest, write in a book, nd he sent and signified it by his and send it unto the seven churchagel unto his servant John: es which are in Asia; unto Ephe2 Who bare record of the word sus, and unto Smyrna, and unto f God, and of the testimony of Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and esus Christ, and of all things that

e saw.

3 Blessed is he that readeth, and hey that hear the words of this rophecy, and keep those things vhich are written therein: for the ime is at hand.

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unto Sardis, and unto Philadel-
phia, and unto Laodicea.
i 12 And I turned to see the voice
that spake with me.
And being
turned, I saw seven golden can-
dlesticks;

13 And in the midst of the seven OHN to the seven churches candlesticks one like unto the Son which are in Asia: Grace of man, clothed with a garment be unto you, and peace, from him down to the foot, and girt about which is, and which was, and the paps with a golden girdle. which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;

t 5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful Witness, and the firstbegotten of the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;

15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.

16 And he had in his right hand seven stars and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. t 17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying, unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:

18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

t 7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. t8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Al- 19 Write the things which thou mighty. hast seen, and the things which g9 I John, who am also your are, and the things which shall be brother, and companion in tribu- hereafter;

lation, and in the kingdom and 20 The mystery of the seven patience of Jesus Christ, was in stars which thou sawest in my the isle that is called Patmos, for right hand, and the seven golden the word of God, and for the tes- candlesticks. The seven stars are timony of Jesus Christ.

d 10 I was in the Spirit on

the angels of the seven churchthe es: and the seven candlesticks

which thou sawest are the seven and ye shall have tribulation ten churches. days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of

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CHAP. II.
the angel of the life.

8 U church of Ephesus write: 11 He that hath an ear, let him

These things saith he that holdeth hear what the Spirit saith unto the seven stars in his right hand, the churches; He that overcom who walketh in the midst of the eth, shall not be hurt of the second seven golden candlesticks; death.

c 2 I know thy works, and thy g 12 And to the angel of the labour, and thy patience, and how church in Pergamos write; thes thou canst not bear them which things saith he which hath the are evil; and thou hast tried them sharp sword with two edges; which say they are apostles, and c 13 I know thy works, and are not; and hast found them where thou dwellest, even where liars: Satan's seat is: and thou holdest

3 And hast borne, and hast pa- fast my name, and hast not denied tience, and for my name's sake my faith, even in those days hast laboured, and hast not wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.

fainted.

4 Nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou has d 5 Remember therefore from there them that hold the doctrine whence thou art fallen, and re- of Balaam, who taught Balak pent, and do the first works; or cast a stumbling-block before the else I will come unto thee quickly, children of Israel, to eat things se and will remove thy candlestick crificed unto idols, and to commit out of his place, except thou fornication.

repent.

15 So hast thou also them that 6 But this thou hast, that thou hold the doctrines of the Nicolaihatest the deeds of the Nicolai- tans, which thing I hate. tans, which I also hate. d 16 Repent; or else I will come b 7 He that hath an ear, let him unto thee quickly, and will fight hear what the Spirit saith unto against them with the sword of the churches; To him that over- my mouth. cometh will I give to eat of the b 17 He that hath an ear, let him tree of life, which is in the midst hear what the Spirit saith unto of the paradise of God. the churches: To him that overg 8 And unto the angel of the cometh will I give to eat of the church in Smyrna, write; These hidden manna, and will give him things saith the first and the last, a white stone, and in the stone a which was dead, and is alive; new name written, which no man c 9 I know thy works, and tribu- knoweth, saving he that receiv lation, and poverty, (but thou art eth it.

rich) and I know the blasphemy g 18 And unto the angel of the of them which say they are Jews, church in Thyatira write; These and are not, but are the synagogue things saith the Son of God, who of Satan. hath his eyes like unto a flame r 10 Fear none of those things of fire, and his feet are like fine which thou shalt suffer. Behold, brass; the devil shall cast some of you c 19 I know thy works, and chainto prison, that ye may be tried; rity, and service, and faith, and

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