2 war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and 'covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and 1 Gr. are 3 war; ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and jealous. receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend 4 it in your pleasures. Ye adulteresses, know ye not 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 Or, saith in 6 'he made to dwell in us long unto envying? But he vain? giveth more grace. Wherefore the scripture saith, God & Or, The 7 resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. Be he made to subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he yearneth 8 he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will for even unto jealous draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; envy. 9 and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded. Be afflicted, Or, That and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to he made to 10 mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble your-yearneth for selves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt us even unto jealous you. 3 spirit which dwell in us spirit which 4 dwell in us envy. ancient dwelleth 11 Speak not one against another, brethren. He that Some speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, authorities speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if read thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, in us. 12 but a judge. One only is the lawgiver and judge, even 5 Gr. a greathe who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? 13 Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, 14 and get gain: whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth er grace. of your 15 away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we Gr. Instead 16 shall both live, and do this or that. But now ye glory saying. 17 in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil. To him. therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. 51 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 1 Or, unto 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. • Gr. presence. 8 9 Or, he 4 Or, endurance 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 3it 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 9 against 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 which 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 5 Or, let yours oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; fall not under judgement. be the yea, yea, and the nay, nay Compare Matt. v. 37. anointed that ye 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 Or, nature was a man of like 'passions with us, and he prayed Gr. with fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months. And he 18 prayer. prayed again; and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. ancient 19 My brethren, if any among you do err from the 20 truth, and one convert him; let him know, that he1 Some which converteth a sinner from the error of his way authorities shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multi- read know tude of sins. ye. THE FIRST EPISTLE GENERAL OF PETER. PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect who 1 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 1 Or, trials put to grief in manifold 'temptations, 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 3 Gr. unto. 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 2 Gr. glorified. 13 hem that preached the gospel unto you by the1 Gr. in. Holy Ghost sent forth from heaven; which things 2 Or, Holy angels desire to look into. Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be Spirit sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is Gr. is being to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus brought. 14 Christ; as children of obedience, not fashioning your 4 Holy One selves according to your former lusts in the time of 15 your ignorance: but like as he which called you is Or, like the holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of which 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, which 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 5 Many 23 the heart fervently: having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the read from a 24 word of God, which liveth and abideth. For, 25 All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. 21 Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, ancient authorities clean heart. 6 Or, God who liveth • Gr. saying. 8 9 Or, malice Gr. rea sonable. |