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... wash your feet , you will not have a part with me . ' On hearing this , Peter said : ' Lord not only my feet , but also my hands and my head . ' The Lord replied : ' He who is washed needs only to wash his feet , but is wholly clean ...
... wash your feet , you will not have a part with me . ' On hearing this , Peter said : ' Lord not only my feet , but also my hands and my head . ' The Lord replied : ' He who is washed needs only to wash his feet , but is wholly clean ...
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... wash one another's feet . " For since the very Author of salvation has redeemed us through obedience , how much more ought we , His servants , to offer the service of humility and obedience . Chapter 7 ( 34 ) After this you received ...
... wash one another's feet . " For since the very Author of salvation has redeemed us through obedience , how much more ought we , His servants , to offer the service of humility and obedience . Chapter 7 ( 34 ) After this you received ...
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... washing , all with twins , and there is none barren among them ; thy lips are as a scarlet lace.'10 No ordinary praise is this , first by the pleasing comparison with the shorn sheep ; for we know that goats feed 6 Cf. Ps . 23.7,8,7 . 7 ...
... washing , all with twins , and there is none barren among them ; thy lips are as a scarlet lace.'10 No ordinary praise is this , first by the pleasing comparison with the shorn sheep ; for we know that goats feed 6 Cf. Ps . 23.7,8,7 . 7 ...
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... wash his feet with that water.19 The prerogative of so great a mystery was due another . He was being awaited who alone could wash away the squalor of all . Gedeon was not so great as to claim this mystery for himself . For not Gedeon ...
... wash his feet with that water.19 The prerogative of so great a mystery was due another . He was being awaited who alone could wash away the squalor of all . Gedeon was not so great as to claim this mystery for himself . For not Gedeon ...
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... wash the feet of His disciples with that heavenly dew . And now let the feet of our souls be extended . The Lord Jesus wishes to wash our feet also , for not to Peter alone but to each one of the faithful does He say : ' If I wash not ...
... wash the feet of His disciples with that heavenly dew . And now let the feet of our souls be extended . The Lord Jesus wishes to wash our feet also , for not to Peter alone but to each one of the faithful does He say : ' If I wash not ...
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Page 34 - But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Page 128 - And these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Page 186 - And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of GOD and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month : and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Page 183 - And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
Page 190 - He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
Page 34 - And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, that He may abide with you for ever. The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, nor knoweth Him : but you shall know Him, because He shall abide with you, and shall be in you.
Page 104 - For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth ; as there are gods many, and lords many ; yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him ; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.
Page 149 - Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Page 140 - I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud and in the sea...
Page 137 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.