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Psalm 119:1-8

119 1 The Prophet exhorteth the children of God to frame their lives according to his holy word. 123 Also he showeth wherein the true service of God standeth, that is, when we serve him according to his word, and not after our own fantasies.

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¹Blessed are ^[a]those that are upright in their way, and walk in the Law of the Lord.

²Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and seek him with their whole heart.

³Surely they work ^[b]none iniquity, but walk in his ways.

⁴Thou hast commanded to keep thy precepts diligently.

⁵^[c]Oh that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

⁶Then should I not be confounded, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.

⁷I will praise thee with an upright ^[d]heart, when I shall learn the ^[e]judgments of thy righteousness.

⁸I will keep thy statutes: forsake me not ^[f]overlong.

Leviticus 26:34-46

³⁴Then shall the land enjoy her ^(A)Sabbaths, as long as it lieth void, and ye shall be in your enemies’ land: then shall the land rest, and enjoy her Sabbaths.

³⁵All the days that it lieth void, it shall rest, because it did not rest in your ^[a]Sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

³⁶And upon them that are left of you, I will send even a ^[b]faintness into their hearts in the land of your enemies, and the sound of a leaf shaken shall chase them, and they shall ^[c]flee as fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall, no man pursuing them.

³⁷They shall fall also one upon another, as before a sword, though none pursue them, and ye shall not be able to stand before your enemies:

³⁸And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

³⁹And they that are left of you, shall pine away for their iniquity, in your enemies’ lands, and for the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with ^[d]them also.

⁴⁰Then they shall confess their iniquity, and the wickedness of their fathers for their trespass, which they have trespassed against me, and also because they have walked stubbornly against me.

⁴¹Therefore I will walk stubbornly against them, and bring them into the land of their enemies: so then their uncircumcised hearts shall be humbled, and then they shall ^[e]willingly bear the punishment of their iniquity.

⁴²Then I will remember my Covenant with Jacob, and my Covenant also with Isaac, and also my Covenant with Abraham will I remember, and will remember the land.

⁴³^[f]The land also in the mean season shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her Sabbaths while she lieth waste without them, but they shall willingly suffer the punishment of their iniquity, because they despised my Laws, and because their soul abhorred mine ordinances.

⁴⁴Yet notwithstanding this, when they shall be in the land of their enemies, ^(B)I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, nor to break my Covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God:

⁴⁵But I will remember for them the ^[g]Covenant of old, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.

⁴⁶These are the Ordinances, and the Judgments, and the Laws, which the Lord made between him, and the children of Israel, in mount ^[h]Sinai by the hand of Moses.

1 John 2:7-17

⁷^[a]Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment, which ye have had from the beginning: this old commandment is that word, which ye have heard from the beginning.

⁸^[b]Again, a new commandment I write unto you, that ^[c]which is true in him: and also in you: for the darkness is past, and that true light now shineth.

⁹^[d]He that saith that he is in that light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness, until this time.

¹⁰^(A)He that loveth his brother, abideth in that light, and there is no occasion of evil in him.

¹¹But he that hateth his brother, is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

¹²^[e]Little children, ^[f]I write unto you, because your sins are forgiven you for his ^[g]Name’s sake.

¹³^[h]I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. ^[i]I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome that wicked one. ^[j]I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.

¹⁴^[k]I have written unto you fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome that wicked one.

¹⁵^[l]Love not this ^[m]world, neither the things that are in this world. If any man love this world, the ^[n]love of the Father is not in him.

¹⁶For all that is in this world, (as the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life) is not of the Father, but is of this world.

¹⁷^[o]And this world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that fulfilleth the will of God, abideth ever.

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1 John 2:7 The Apostle going about to expound the commandment of charity one toward another, telleth first, that when he urgeth holiness bringeth no new trade of life (as they use to do which devise traditions, one after another) but putteth them in mind of the same Law which God gave in the beginning, to wit, by Moses, at that time that God began to give Laws to his people.
1 John 2:8 He addeth that the doctrine indeed is old, but it is now after a sort new both in respect of Christ, and also of us: in whom he through the Gospel, engraveth his Law effectually, not in tables of stone, but in our minds.
1 John 2:8 Which thing (to wit, that the doctrine is new of which I write unto you) is true in him and in you.
1 John 2:9 Now he cometh to the second Table, that is, to charity one towards another, and denieth that that man hath true light in him, or is indeed regenerate and the son of God, which hateth his brother: and such an one wandereth miserably in darkness, brag he of never so great knowledge of God, for that wittingly and willingly he casteth himself headlong into hell.
1 John 2:12 He returneth again from sanctification to remission of sins, because that free reconciliation in Christ is the ground of our salvation, whereupon afterwards sanctification must be built as upon a foundation.
1 John 2:12 Therefore I write unto you, because you are of their number whom God hath reconciled to himself.
1 John 2:12 For his own sake: And in that he nameth Christ, he shutteth out all others, whether they be in heaven or earth.
1 John 2:13 He showeth that this doctrine agreeth to all ages, and first of all speaking to old men, he showeth that Christ and his doctrine are passing ancient, and therefore they be delighted with old things, nothing ought to be more acceptable unto them.
1 John 2:13 He advertiseth young men, if they be desirous to show their strength that they have a most glorious combat set here before them, to wit, Satan the worst enemies, who must be overcome: willing them to be as sure of the victory as if they had already gotten it.
1 John 2:13 Finally, he showeth to children, that true Father, from whom they have to look for all good things, is set forth unto them in the Gospel.
1 John 2:14 He addeth afterward in like order, as many exhortations, as if he should say, Remember your fathers: as I wrote even now, that the everlasting Son of God is revealed to us. Remember ye young men, that that strength whereby I said that you put Satan to flight, is given you by the word of God, which dwelleth in you.
1 John 2:15 The world which is full of wicked desires, lusts or pleasures, and pride, is utterly hated of our heavenly Father. Therefore the Father and the world cannot be loved together: and this admonition is very necessary for green and flourishing youth.
1 John 2:15 He speaketh of the world, as it agreeth not with the will of God, for otherwise God is said to love the world with an infinite love, John 3:16, that is to say, those whom he chose out of the world.
1 John 2:15 Wherewith the Father is loved.
1 John 2:17 He showeth how much better it is to obey the Father’s will, than the lusts of the world, by both their natures and unlike event.

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