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... a way which you know to be wrong , stop instantly ; God will bless the effort . When Jesus told the man with the withered hand to stretch it forth , the man tried to do so ; and no sooner had he made the effort , than 18.
... a way which you know to be wrong , stop instantly ; God will bless the effort . When Jesus told the man with the withered hand to stretch it forth , the man tried to do so ; and no sooner had he made the effort , than 18.
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... told him , his hand would have remained withered as before . Try , therefore ; that is , watch as well as pray , and God will be at hand to hear and to bless . But perhaps some of you will be thinking to yourselves , " Why is all this ...
... told him , his hand would have remained withered as before . Try , therefore ; that is , watch as well as pray , and God will be at hand to hear and to bless . But perhaps some of you will be thinking to yourselves , " Why is all this ...
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... told of Xerxes , the Persian monarch , who , when he was leading his enor- mous army into Greece , met with a plane tree of an extraordinary size , the shade of which he found so delightful , that he remained a whole day to enjoy it ...
... told of Xerxes , the Persian monarch , who , when he was leading his enor- mous army into Greece , met with a plane tree of an extraordinary size , the shade of which he found so delightful , that he remained a whole day to enjoy it ...
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... told us not to find our own pleasure , nor to speak our own words on his holy day ; and he is as angry with those who break the Sabbath secretly at home and in their own families , as with those who break it openly . These wicked people ...
... told us not to find our own pleasure , nor to speak our own words on his holy day ; and he is as angry with those who break the Sabbath secretly at home and in their own families , as with those who break it openly . These wicked people ...
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... told me to turn Catholic . I went to their priest , and he told me to go begging for the present , but to return to him some other day , and that he was willing to baptize me . But I did not go to him any more , for I came to spend the ...
... told me to turn Catholic . I went to their priest , and he told me to go begging for the present , but to return to him some other day , and that he was willing to baptize me . But I did not go to him any more , for I came to spend the ...
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Page 153 - Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Page 31 - Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...
Page 59 - Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
Page 65 - And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.
Page 182 - No man taketh my life from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.
Page 72 - And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones : there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
Page 254 - But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten : as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves : so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Page 246 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him. and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. 5 And always, night and day. he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
Page 78 - Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet; but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
Page 124 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.