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 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 

For thou hast possessed my reins:

Thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:

Marvellous are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well.

My substance was not hid from thee,

When I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect;

And in thy book all my members were written,

Which in continuance were fashioned,

When as yet there was none of them.

 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. 

 And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them, 

 Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me. 

For the oppression of the poor,

For the sighing of the needy,

Now will I arise, saith the LORD;

I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

 Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands, 

 saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee? 

 submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. 

 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. 

 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. 

 Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. 

 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.  

 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. 

 Thou shalt not commit adultery. 

 And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. 

 And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem. 

 And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.  

 And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?  

 And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house. 

 And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child. 

 And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David. 

 And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered. 

 And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess of meat from the king. 

 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house. 

 And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house?  

 And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing. 

 And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.  

 And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house. 

 And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 

 And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die. 

 And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were. 

 And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.  

 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war; 

 and charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king, 

 and if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall? 

 Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also. 

 So the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that Joab had sent him for. 

 And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate. 

 And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also. 

 Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him. 

 And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.  

 And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD. 

Drink waters out of thine own cistern,

And running waters out of thine own well.

Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad,

And rivers of waters in the streets. 

Let them be only thine own,

And not strangers' with thee.

Let thy fountain be blessed:

And rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe;

Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times;

And be thou ravished always with her love.

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman,

And embrace the bosom of a stranger?

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD,

And he pondereth all his goings.

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself,

And he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

He shall die without instruction;

And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 

 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 

 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 

 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 

 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. 

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree:

He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Those that be planted in the house of the LORD

Shall flourish in the courts of our God.

They shall still bring forth fruit in old age;

They shall be fat and flourishing;

To shew that the LORD is upright: He is my rock,

And there is no unrighteousness in him.

The hoary head is a crown of glory,

If it be found in the way of righteousness.

The glory of young men is their strength:

And the beauty of old men is the grey head.

 But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: 

 that the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.  

 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; 

 that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,  

 to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. 

 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded. 

 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, 

 sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you. 

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging:

And whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow?

Who hath contentions? Who hath babbling?

Who hath wounds without cause?

Who hath redness of eyes?

They that tarry long at the wine;

They that go to seek mixed wine.

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red,

When it giveth his colour in the cup,

When it moveth itself aright.

At the last it biteth like a serpent,

And stingeth like an adder.

Thine eyes shall behold strange women,

And thine heart shall utter perverse things.

Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea,

Or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick;

They have beaten me, and I felt it not:

When shall I awake?

I will seek it yet again.

 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. 

 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. 

 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 

 idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 

 envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.  

 And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: 

Bless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts;

Ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.

 This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men. 

 My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.  

 Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. 

 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. 

 Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.  

 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth. 

 And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest. 

 Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years? 

 And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words. 

 So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy. 

 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? 

 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart. 

 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;  

 but (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.  

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

 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. 

A soft answer turneth away wrath:

But grievous words stir up anger.

It is an honour for a man to cease from strife:

But every fool will be meddling.

He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him,

Is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.

 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: 

 and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven. 

Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades,

And the chambers of the south.

 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. 

 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.