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Ask a QuestionFor as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till * he come.
I say again, Let no man think me * a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
Wherefore * let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
But, beloved, be not * ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword.
And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.
Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramothgilead * And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.
And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses.
As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.