Jeremiah 1Jeremiah 2John 5.1-30Jeremiah 1
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The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
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To whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his rule.
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And it came again in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, up to the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah till Jerusalem was taken away in the fifth month.
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Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations.
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Then said I, O Lord God! see, I have no power of words, for I am a child.
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But the Lord said to me, Do not say, I am a child: for wherever I send you, you are to go, and whatever I give you orders to say, you are to say.
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Have no fear because of them: for I am with you, to keep you safe, says the Lord.
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Then the Lord put out his hand, touching my mouth and the Lord said to me, See, I have put my words in your mouth:
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See, this day I have put you over the nations and over the kingdoms, for uprooting and smashing down, for destruction and overturning, for building up and planting.
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Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what do you see? And I said, I see a branch of an almond-tree.
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Then the Lord said to me, You have seen well: for I keep watch over my word to give effect to it.
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And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, What do you see? And I said, I see a boiling pot, and its face is from the north.
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Then the Lord said to me, Out of the north evil will come, bursting out on all the people of the land.
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For see, I will send for all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the Lord and they will come, everyone placing his high seat at the way into Jerusalem, and against its walls on every side, and against all the towns of Judah.
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And I will give my decision against them on account of all their evil-doing because they have given me up, burning perfumes to other gods and worshipping the works of their hands.
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So make yourself ready, and go and say to them everything I give you orders to say: do not be overcome by fear of them, or I will send fear on you before them.
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For see, this day have I made you a walled town, and an iron pillar, and walls of brass, against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its captains, against its priests, and against the people of the land.
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They will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you, says the Lord, to give you salvation.
Jeremiah 2
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And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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Go and say in the ears of Jerusalem, The Lord says, I still keep the memory of your kind heart when you were young, and your love when you became my bride how you went after me in the waste of sand, in an unplanted land.
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Israel was holy to the Lord, the first-fruits of his increase: all who made attacks on him were judged as wrongdoers, evil came on them, says the Lord.
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Give ear to the words of the Lord, O sons of Jacob and all the families of Israel:
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These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?
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And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?
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And I took you into a fertile land, where you were living on its fruit and its wealth but when you came in, you made my land unclean, and made my heritage a disgusting thing.
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The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.
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For this reason, I will again put forward my cause against you, says the Lord, even against you and against your children's children.
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For go over to the sea-lands of Kittim and see send to Kedar and give deep thought to it and see if there has ever been such a thing.
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Has any nation ever made a change in their gods, though they are no gods? but my people have given up their glory in exchange for what is of no profit.
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Be full of wonder, O heavens, at this be overcome with fear, be completely waste, says the Lord.
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For my people have done two evils they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.
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Is Israel a servant? has he been a house-servant from birth? why has he been made waste?
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The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.
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Even the children of Noph and Tahpanhes have put shame on you.
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Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way?
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And now, what have you to do on the way to Egypt, to get your drink from the waters of the Nile? or what have you to do on the way to Assyria, to get your drink from the waters of the River?
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The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
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For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted and you said, I will not be your servant for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman
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But when you were planted by me, you were a noble vine, in every way a true seed: how then have you been changed into the branching plant of a strange vine?
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For even if you are washed with soda and take much soap, still your evil-doing is marked before me, says the Lord God.
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How are you able to say, I am not unclean, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, be clear about what you have done: you are a quick-footed camel twisting her way in and out
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An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired in her month they will get her.
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Do not let your foot be without shoes, or your throat dry from need of water: but you said, There is no hope: no, for I have been a lover of strange gods, and after them I will go.
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As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets
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Who say to a tree, You are my father and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.
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But where are the gods you have made for yourselves? let them come, if they are able to give you salvation in the time of your trouble: for the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah.
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Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.
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I gave your children blows to no purpose they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.
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O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?
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Is it possible for a virgin to put out of her memory her ornaments, or a bride her robes? but my people have put me out of their memories for unnumbered days.
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With what care are your ways ordered when you are looking for love! so...your ways.
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And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: ...
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And still you said, I have done no wrong truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.
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Why do you go about so much for the purpose of changing your way? you will be shamed on account of Egypt, as you were shamed on account of Assyria.
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Truly, you will go out from him with your hands on your head: for the Lord has given up those in whom you have put your faith, and they will be of no help to you.
John 5
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After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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Now in Jerusalem near the sheep-market there is a public bath which in Hebrew is named Beth-zatha. It has five doorways.
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In these doorways there were a great number of people with different diseases: some unable to see, some without the power of walking, some with wasted bodies.
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One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
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When Jesus saw him there on the floor it was clear to him that he had been now a long time in that condition, and so he said to the man, Is it your desire to get well?
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The ill man said in answer, Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath when the water is moving and while I am on the way down some other person gets in before me.
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Jesus said to him, Get up, take your bed and go.
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And the man became well straight away, and took up his bed and went. Now that day was the Sabbath.
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So the Jews said to the man who had been made well, It is the Sabbath and it is against the law for you to take up your bed.
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He said to them, But he who made me well, said to me, Take up your bed and go.
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Then they put to him the question: Who is the man who said to you, Take it up and go?
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Now he who had been made well had no knowledge who it was, Jesus having gone away because of the number of people who were in that place.
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After a time Jesus came across him in the Temple and said to him, See, you are well and strong do no more sin for fear a worse thing comes to you.
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The man went away and said to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
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And for this reason the Jews were turned against Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
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But his answer was: My Father is still working even now, and so I am working.
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For this cause the Jews had an even greater desire to put Jesus to death, because not only did he not keep the Sabbath but he said God was his Father, so making himself equal with God.
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So Jesus made answer and said, Truly I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything himself he is able to do only what he sees the Father doing whatever the Father does the Son does it in the same way.
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For the Father has love for the Son and lets him see everything which he does: and he will let him see greater works than these so that you may be full of wonder.
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In the same way, as the Father gives life to the dead, even so the Son gives life to those to whom he is pleased to give it.
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The Father is not the judge of men, but he has given all decisions into the hands of the Son
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So that all men may give honour to the Son even as they give honour to the Father. He who gives no honour to the Son gives no honour to the Father who sent him.
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Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.
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Truly I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have life.
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For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son to have life in himself.
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And he has given him authority to be judge because he is the Son of man.
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Do not be surprised at this: for the time is coming when his voice will come to all who are in the place of the dead,
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And they will come out those who have done good, into the new life and those who have done evil, to be judged.
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Of myself I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I give a decision: and my decision is right because I have no desire to do what is pleasing to myself, but only what is pleasing to him who sent me.
