1 Kings 41 Kings 51 Kings 6James 2.1->James 3.1-131 Kings 4
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Now Solomon was king over all Israel.
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And these were his chief men: Azariah, the son of Zadok, was the priest
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Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were scribes Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was the recorder
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Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was head of the army Zadok and Abiathar were priests
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Azariah, the son of Nathan, was over those in authority in the different divisions of the country Zabud, the son of Nathan, was priest and the king's friend
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Ahishar was controller of the king's house Adoniram, the son of Abda, was overseer of the forced work.
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And Solomon put twelve overseers over all Israel, to be responsible for the stores needed for the king and those of his house every man was responsible for one month in the year.
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And these are their names: ...the son of Hur in the hill country of Ephraim
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...the son of Deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan
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...the son of Hesed in Arubboth Socoh and all the land of Hepher were under his control
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...the son of Abinadab in all Naphath-dor his wife was Taphath, the daughter of Solomon.
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Baana, the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is by the side of Zarethan, under Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as the far side of Jokmeam
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...the son of Geber in Ramoth-gilead he had the towns of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and the country of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great towns with walls and locks of brass.
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Ahinadab, the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim
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Ahimaaz in Naphtali he took Basemath, the daughter of Solomon, as his wife
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Baana, the son of Hushai, in Asher and Aloth
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Jehoshaphat, the son of Paruah, in Issachar
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Shimei, the son of Ela, in Benjamin
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Geber, the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan and one overseer had authority over all the overseers who were in the land.
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Judah and Israel were as great in number as the sand by the seaside, and they took their food and drink with joy in their hearts.
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And Solomon was ruler over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the edge of Egypt men gave him offerings and were his servants all the days of his life.
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And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal
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Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles and roes and fat fowls.
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For he had authority over all the country on this side of the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings on this side of the River and he had peace round him on every side.
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So Judah and Israel were living safely, every man under his vine and his fig-tree, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
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And Solomon had four thousand boxed-off spaces for horses for his carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen.
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And those overseers, every man in his month, saw that food was produced for Solomon and all his guests, they took care that nothing was overlooked.
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And they took grain and dry grass for the horses and the carriage-horses, to the right place, every man as he was ordered.
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And God gave Solomon a great store of wisdom and good sense, and a mind of wide range, as wide as the sand by the seaside.
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And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.
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For he was wiser than all men, even than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman and Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol and he had a great name among all the nations round about.
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He was the maker of three thousand wise sayings, and of songs to the number of a thousand and five.
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He made sayings about all plants, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop hanging on the wall and about all beasts and birds and fishes and the small things of the earth.
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People came from every nation to give ear to the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had word of his wisdom.
1 Kings 5
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Now Hiram, king of Tyre, hearing that Solomon had been made king in place of his father, sent his servants to him for Hiram had ever been a friend to David.
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And Solomon sent back word to Hiram, saying,
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You have knowledge that David my father was not able to make a house for the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars which were round him on every side, till the Lord put all those who were against him under his feet.
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But now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side no one is making trouble, and no evil is taking place.
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And so it is my purpose to make a house for the name of the Lord my God, as he said to David my father, Your son, whom I will make king in your place, will be the builder of a house for my name.
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So now, will you have cedar-trees from Lebanon cut down for me, and my servants will be with your servants and I will give you payment for your servants at whatever rate you say for it is common knowledge that we have no such wood-cutters among us as the men of Zidon.
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And these words of Solomon made Hiram glad, and he said, Now may the Lord be praised who has given to David a wise son to be king over this great people.
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Then Hiram sent to Solomon, saying The words you sent have been given to me: I will do all your desire in the question of cedar-wood and cypress-wood.
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My men will take them down from Lebanon to the sea, where I will have them corded together to go by sea to whatever place you say, and I will have them cut up there so that you may take them away as for payment, it will be enough if you give me food for my people.
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So Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar-wood and cypress-wood he had need of
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And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of grain, as food for his people, and twenty measures of clear oil this he did every year.
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Now the Lord had given Solomon wisdom, as he had said to him and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and they made an agreement together.
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Then King Solomon got together men for the forced work through all Israel, thirty thousand men in number
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And sent them to Lebanon in bands of ten thousand every month: for a month they were working in Lebanon and for two months in their country, and Adoniram was in control of them.
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Then he had seventy thousand for the work of transport, and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountains
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In addition to the chiefs of the responsible men put by Solomon to oversee the work, three thousand and three hundred in authority over the workmen.
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By the king's orders great stones, stones of high price, were cut out, so that the base of the house might be made of squared stone.
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Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house.
1 Kings 6
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In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year that Solomon was king of Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, the building of the Lord's house was started.
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The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.
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The covered way before the Temple of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and ten cubits wide in front of the house.
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And for the house he made windows, with network across.
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And against the walls all round, and against the walls of the Temple and of the inmost room, he put up wings, with side rooms all round:
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The lowest line of them being five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide and the third seven cubits for there was a space all round the outside walls of the house so that the boards supporting the rooms did not have to be fixed in the walls of the house.
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(And the stones used in the building of the house were squared at the place where they were cut out there was no sound of hammer or axe or any iron instrument while they were building the house.)
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The door to the lowest side rooms was in the right side of the house and they went up by twisting steps into the middle rooms, and from the middle into the third.
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So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.
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And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting against the house on boards of cedar-wood.
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(And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,
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About this house which you are building: if you will keep my laws and give effect to my decisions and be guided by my rules, I will give effect to my word which I gave to David your father.
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And I will be ever among the children of Israel, and will not go away from my people.
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So Solomon made the building of the house complete.)
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The walls of the house were covered inside with cedar-wood boards from the floor to the roof of the house they were covered inside with wood and the floor was covered with boards of cypress-wood.
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And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.
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And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.
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(All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers no stonework was to be seen inside.)
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And he made ready an inmost room in the middle of the house, in which to put the ark of the agreement of the Lord.
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And the inmost room was twenty cubits square and twenty cubits high, plated over with clear gold, and he made an altar of cedar-wood, plating it with gold.
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Solomon had all the inside of the house covered with gold, and he put chains of gold across in front of the inmost room, which itself was covered with gold.
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Plates of gold were put all through the house till it was covered completely (and the altar in the inmost room was all covered with gold).
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In the inmost room he made two winged beings of olive-wood, ten cubits high
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With outstretched wings five cubits wide the distance from the edge of one wing to the edge of the other was ten cubits.
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The two winged ones were ten cubits high, of the same size and form.
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The two of them were ten cubits high.
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These were placed inside the inner house, their outstretched wings touching the walls of the house, one touching one wall and one the other, while their other wings were touching in the middle.
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These winged ones were plated over with gold.
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And all the walls of the house inside and out were ornamented with forms of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers.
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And the floor of the house was covered with gold, inside and out.
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For the way into the inmost room he made doors of olive-wood, the arch and the door supports forming a five-sided opening.
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On the olive-wood doors were cut designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, all of them, with the doors, plated with gold.
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Then he made pillars of olive-wood for the way into the Temple the pillars were square:
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And two folding doors of cypress-wood, with two leaves.
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These were ornamented with designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, plated over with gold.
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And the inner space was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards.
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In the fourth year the base of the house was put in its place, in the month Ziv.
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And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the building of the house was complete in every detail, as it had been designed. So he was seven years building it.
James 2
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My brothers, if you have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory, do not take a man's position into account.
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For if a man comes into your Synagogue in fair clothing and with a gold ring, and a poor man comes in with dirty clothing,
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And you do honour to the man in fair clothing and say, Come here and take this good place and you say to the poor man, Take up your position there, or be seated at my feet
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Is there not a division in your minds? have you not become judges with evil thoughts?
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Give ear, my dear brothers are not those who are poor in the things of this world marked out by God to have faith as their wealth, and for their heritage the kingdom which he has said he will give to those who have love for him?
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But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?
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Do they not say evil of the holy name which was given to you?
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But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well:
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But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.
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For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all.
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For he who said, Do not be untrue in married life, is the same who said, Put no man to death. Now if you are not untrue in married life, but you put a man to death, the law is broken.
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Let your words and your acts be those of men who are to be judged by the law which makes free.
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For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.
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What use is it, my brothers, for a man to say that he has faith, if he does nothing? will such a faith give him salvation?
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If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of the day's food,
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And one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warm and full of food but you do not give them the things of which their bodies have need, what profit is there in this?
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Even so faith without works is dead.
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But a man may say, You have faith and I have works let me see your faith without your works, and I will make my faith clear to you by my works.
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You have the belief that God is one, and you do well: the evil spirits have the same belief, shaking with fear.
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Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?
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Was not the righteousness of Abraham our father judged by his works, when he made an offering of Isaac his son on the altar?
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You see that his faith was helping his works and was made complete by them
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And the holy Writings were put into effect which said, And Abraham had faith in God and it was put to his account as righteousness and he was named the friend of God.
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You see that a man's righteousness is judged by his works and not by his faith only.
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And in the same way, was not the righteousness of Rahab, the loose woman, judged by her works, when she took into her house those who were sent and let them go out by another way?
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For as the body without the spirit is dead even so faith without works is dead.
James 3
1-13
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Do not all be teachers, my brothers, because we teachers will be judged more hardly than others.
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For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.
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Now if we put bits of iron into horses' mouths so that they may be guided by us, we have complete control of their bodies.
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And again ships, though they are so great and are moved by violent winds, are turned by a very small guiding-blade, at the impulse of the man who is using it.
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Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!
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And the tongue is a fire it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.
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For every sort of beast and bird and every living thing on earth and in the sea has been controlled by man and is under his authority
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But the tongue may not be controlled by man it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death.
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With it we give praise to our Lord and Father and with it we put a curse on men who are made in God's image.
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Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, it is not right for these things to be so.
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Does the fountain send from the same outlet sweet and bitter water?
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Is a fig-tree able to give us olives, my brothers, or do we get figs from a vine, or sweet water from the salt sea?
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Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.
