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Even so the tongue is a little member, your laughter be turned to mourning, and boasteth great things. Behold how great your joy to heaviness.

atter a little fire kindleth!

And the tongue is a fire, a world of uity: so is the tongue among our mems, that it defileth the whole body, and seton fire the course of nature; and it is on fire of hell.

For every kind of beasts and of birds, of serpents, and of things in the sea, is ed, and hath been tamed of mankind : But the tongue can no man tame; it is unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Therewith bless we God, even the Far; and therewith curse we men, which made after the similitude of God.

10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judg est another?

13 Go to now, ye that say, To-day, or tomorrow, we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and

O Out of the same mouth proceedeth get gain;
ssing and cursing. My brethren, these
ngs ought not so to be.

I Doth a fountain send forth at the same

ce sweet water and bitter?

12 Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear
ve-berries? either a vine, figs? so can no
intain both yield salt water and fresh.
13 Who is a wise man, and endued with
owledge among you? let him shew out of
Food conversation his works with meek-
ss of wisdom.

14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife
your hearts, glory not, and lie not against
truth.

15 This wisdom descendeth not from
ove but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 For where envying and strife is, there
confusion, and every evil work.
17 But the wisdom that is from above is
st pure, then peaceable, gentle and easy
be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits,
thout partiality, and without hypocrisy.
18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown
peace of them that make peace.
CHAP. IV.

ROM whence come wars and fightings
among you? come tney not hence, even
f your lusts that war in your members?
2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and de-
re to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and
evar, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye
sk amiss, that ye may consume it upon
our lusts.

14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow: for what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings. all such rejoicing is evil.

17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. CHAP. V.

GO to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon

you.

2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the 4 Ye adulterers, and adulteresses, know earth, and hath long patience for it, until he e not that the friendship of the world is en-receive the early and latter rain. nity with God? whosoever therefore will 8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: e a friend of the world is the enemy of for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. God. 9 Grudge not one against another, bre5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in thren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth Judge standeth before the door. to envy?

6 But he giveth more grace: wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded. 12 But above all things, my brethren, 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let swear not; neither by heaven, neither by

the earth, neither by any other oath: but The effectual fervent prayer of a rig let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; man availeth much. lest ye fall into condemnation.

13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray cne for another, that ye may be healed.

17 Elias was a man subject to the pas as we are, and be prayed earnestn might not rain; and it rained not on the et by the space of three years and six

18 And he prayed again, and the bo gave rain, and the earth brougta fru z fruit.

The First Epistle general of PETER.

19 Brethren, if any of you do err from truth, and one convert him;

20 Let him know, that he which comm eth the sinner from the error of his way s save a soul from death, and shali La multitude of sins.

4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

CHAP. I.

PETER,

an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of 14 As obedient children, not fashorz God the Father, through sanctification of yourselves according to the former lasis the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of your ignorance: the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, 15 But as he which hath called you is b and peace be multiplied. so be ye holy in all manner of assas tion;

16 Because it is written, Be ye holy, fr

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which, according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten us again un-am holy. to a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season (if need be) ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations;

7 That the trial of your faith being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise, and honour, and glory, at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable, and full of glory;

9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

13 Wherefore gird up the loins of ru mind, be sober, and hope to the end, fir a grace that is to be brought unto you u revelation of Jesus Christ:

17 And if ye call on the Father, who wo out respect of persons judgeth according every man's work, pass the time of your i journing here in fear:

18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye wes 5 Who are kept by the power of God not redeemed with corruptible things, e through faith unto salvation, ready to be re-ver and gold, from your vain conversa vealed in the last time: received by tradition from your fathers.

19 But with the precious blood of Christ of a lamb without blemish and without ga 20 Who verily was fore-ordained betere s foundation of the world, but was mamies these last times for you,

21 Who by him do believe in God raised him up from the dead, and gave to glory; that your faith and hope might be God.

22 Seeing ye have purified your sock obeying the truth through the Spira unfeigned love of the brethren, see that love one another with a pure heart ferves ly:

23 Being born again, not of corrupto

10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who pro-seed, but of incorruptible, by the ward phesied of the grace that should come unto God, which liveth and abideth for ever. you: 24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the ga 11 Searching what, or what manner of of man as the flower of grass. The gas time, the Spirit of Christ which was in them withereth, and the flower thereof fal did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

away:

25 But the word of the Lord endureth fr ever. And this is the word which by t gospel is preached unto you. CHAP. II.

12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us, they did minister the things which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you, with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

aside all

lice, and all guile, and hypocr and envies, and all evil-speakings,

2 As new-born babes, desire the s milk of the word, that ye may grow ther

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4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, sallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, di precious,

22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth :

23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that

5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a judgeth righteously:
iritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer
spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by
sus Christ.

6 Wherefore also it is contained in the
ripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief cor-
r-stone, elect, precious: and he that be-
veth on him shall not be confounded.
7 Unto you therefore which believe he is

24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. CHAP. III.

IKEWISE, ye wives, be in subjection to

ecious: but unto them which be disobe your own husbands; that if any obey not

ent, the stone which the builders disalwed, the same is made the head of the

rner,

8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of fence, even to them which stumble at the ord, being disobedient; whereunto also ey were appointed.

9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal iesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar peoe; that ye should shew forth the praises of in who hath called you out of darkness inhis marvellous light:

10 Which in time past were not a people, it are now the people of God: which had ot obtained mercy, but now have obtained ercy.

11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as straners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, hich war against the soul;

the word, they also may without the word
be won by the conversation of the wives;
2 While they behold your chaste conver-
sation coupled with fear:

3 Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;

4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands;

6 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling hin lord: whose daughters ye are as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any 12 Having your conversation honest among amazement. e Gentiles; that whereas they speak against | 7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them ou as evil-doers, they may, by your good according to knowledge, giving honour unorks which they shall behold, glorify God to the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and the day of visitation. as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance man for the Lord's sake: whether it be the king, as supreme;

14 Or unto governors, as unto them that e sent by him for the punishment of evil>ers, and for the praise of them that do well. 15 For so is the will of God, that with ell-doing ye may put to silence the ignoince of foolish men:

16 As free, and not using your liberty for cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants f God.

8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another; love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous;

9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile :

11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let

17 Honour all men. Love the brother-him seek peace, and ensue it. ood. Fear God. Honour the king.

18 Servants, be subject to your masters with 11 fear; not only to the good and gentle, ut also to the froward.

12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

19 For this is thank-worthy, if a man for 13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye conscience toward God endure grief, suffer-be followers of that which is good? ng wrongfully.

14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness' 20 For what glory is it, if, when ye be sake; happy are ye; and be not afraid of buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it pa- their terror, neither be troubled; iently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer 15 But sanctify the Lord God in your or it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable hearts: and be ready always to give an auwith God. swer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

21 For even hereunto were ye called; betause Christ also suffered for us, leaving is an example, that ye should follow his teps:

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they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well-doing, than for evil-doing.

18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;

20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited

13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are par kers of Christ's sufferings; that, when glory shall be revealed, ye may be gla with exceeding joy.

14 If ye be reproached for the name Christ, happy are ye; for the Spirit of car and of God resteth upon you: on ther he is evil spoken of, but on your partie i glorified.

15 But let none of you suffer as a murder or as a thief, or as an evil-doer, or as a i sy-body in other men's matters.

16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian. in the days of Noah,while the ark was a pre-him not be ashamed; but let him giy paring, wherein few, that is, eight souls, God on this behalf. were saved by water.

17 For the time is come that judgment s 21 The like figure whereunto even bap-begin at the house of God: and if a first tism doth also now save us, (not the putting gin at us, what shall the end be of them away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer obey not the gospel of God? of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels, and authorities, and powers, being made subject unto him. CHAP IV.

NORASMUCH then as Christ hath suf

FORASMUCH as as yourselves

likewise with the same mind: for he that

hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from

sin;

18 And if the righteous scarcely be sm where shall the ungodly and the sinser pear?

19 Wherefore, let them that suffer acce ing to the will of God commit the keepe of their souls to him in well-doing, as t faithful Creator.

CHAP. V.

THE elders which are among you In

hort, who am also an elder, and a w ness of the sufferings of Christ, and as 2 That he no longer should live the rest of a partaker of the glory that shall be r his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but vealed: to the will of God.

2 Feed the flock of God which is an 3 For the time past of our life may suffice you, taking the oversight thereof, not by us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, straint, but willingly; not for filthy a when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, ex-but of a ready mind; cess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you;

5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.

3 Neither as being lords over God's tage, but being ensamples to the flock: 4 And when the chief Shepherd shal n pear, ye shall receive a crown of glory an fadeth not away.

5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourse unto the elder; yea, all of you be subject to another, and be clothed with hum for God resisteth the proud, and giveth ge to the humble.

6 For, for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the 6 Humble yourselves therefore under spirit. mighty hand of God, that he may exa in due time;

7 Casting all your care upon him; fr

7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. 8 And, above all things, have fervent cha-careth for you. rity among yourselves: for, charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth; that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ; to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you

8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your a versary the devil, as a roaring lion, wal about, seeking whom he may devour:

9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, b ing that the same afflictions are accomp ed in your brethren that are in the war

10 But the God of all grace, who in called us unto his eternal glory by Ches Jesus, after that ye have suffered a w make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, sch you:

11 To him be glory and dominica for ev and ever. Amen.

12 By Silvanus, a faithful brother se you, as I suppose, I have written bred exhorting, and testifying that this is the trus grace of God wherein ye stand.

13 The church that is at Babylon, elected 14 Greet ye one another with a kiss of gether with you, saluteth you; and so doth charity, Peace be with you all that are in Tarcus my son. Christ Jesus. Amen.

The Second Epistle general of PETER.
CHAP I.

Jis my beloved Son in whom I am well plea

IMON PETER, a servant and an apos- sed.

tle of Jesus Christ, to them that have 18 And this voice which came from heabtained like precious faith with us, through ven we heard, when we were with him in he righteousness of God and our Saviour the holy mount. Jesus Christ:

19 We have also a more sure word of pro

2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you phecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take hrough the knowledge of God, and of Jesus heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark Our Lord, place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts;

3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto ife and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and vir

20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man; but holy men of God 4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding spake as they were moved by the Holy great and precious promises; that by these Ghost. e might be partakers of the divine nature,

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CHAP. II.

BUT there were false prophets also among

the people, even as there shall be false

5 And besides this, giving all diligence, teachers among you, who privily shall bring add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord knowledge; that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

6 And to knowledge, temperance; and to emperance, patience; and to patience, god-| iness;

7 And to godliness, brotherly kindness; and o brotherly kindness, charity.

2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

3 And through covetousness shall they with 8 For if these things be in you, and abound, feigned words make merchandise of you: hey make you that ye shall neither be barren whose judgment now of a long time lingereth or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord not, and their damnation slumbereth not. Jesus Christ.

9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure; for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah, the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

11 For so an entrance shall be ministered] 6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gounto you abundantly into the everlasting morrha into ashes, condemned them with an kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus overthrow, making them an ensample unto Christ. those that after should live ungodly;

12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.

13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up, by putting you in remembrance;

14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.

15 Moreover, I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.

7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked

8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds :)

9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished;

10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government: presumptuous are they, self16 For we have not followed cunningly-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of devised fables, when we made known unto dignities: you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus 11 Whereas angels, which are greater in Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty. power and might, bring not railing accusa17 For he received from God the Father tion against them before the Lord. honour and glory, when there came such a 12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made voice to him from the excellent glory, This! to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the

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