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them. The righteous is delivered out of trouble. The seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

The thoughts of the righteous are right. The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable. The desire of the righteous is only good. The light of the righteous rejoiceth. The hope of the i righteous shall be gladness. The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. The labour of the righteous tendeth to life.

The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

In the house of the righteous is much treasure. The house of the righteous shall stand. The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. Behold the righteous shall be recompensed in

the earth.

Thou, Lord, will bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield. Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

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Verily there is a reward for the righteous. To him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure

reward.

Righteousness tendeth to life. Righteousness delivereth from death.

The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance for ever.

The righteous shall be in everlasting remem brance. The righteous is an everlasting foundation.

The righteous hath hope in his death. Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his.

CHAP. LXXV.

SABBATH.

THE heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day, God ended his work which he had made: and he rested the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it; because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Six days shall work be done; but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.

Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest that thine ox may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger may be refreshed.

Hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.

Keep the sabbath-day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.

It is lawful to do well on the sabbath-days. Jesus said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath-day, will he not lay hold of it and lift it out?

I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day.

The Son of man is Lord even of the sabbathday.

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a Delight, and the Holy of the Lord, Honourable; and shalt honour, him not

doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words; then thou shalt delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Blessed is the man that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it.

CHAP. LXXVI.

SCRIPTURES.

THE world by wisdom knew not God. An highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.

Whatsoever things were written aforetime, was written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

These are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing, ye might have life through his name.

We have a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: knowing this first, that no prophecy is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man; but holy

men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour.

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life and they are they which testify of me. These were more noble, in that they searched the scriptures daily.

Jesus said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

Account that the long-suffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you ; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ?

The word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and Spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Thy word is truth. Thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. The words of the Lord are pure words. Every word of God is

pure.

Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom.

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

The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

The law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right.

The word of the Lord endureth forever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel, or this work, be of men, it will come to nought: but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it: lest haply ye be found even to fight against God,

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

We thank God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as

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