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Ahura Mazda Almighty Amen beauty Behold beseech Thee Bhikkhus Blessed body Brahman Brâhmana breath charity City of Righteousness closely to Thee command Common Worship dæmon darkness death deeds desire divine divine eye doth dwell earth eternal everlasting evil faith Father fear flesh forever G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS give glory gods grant hand happy hath heart heaven heavenly Holy Spirit honor hymns King kingdom kingdom of heaven land live Lord thy love Thee maker of men mind mountains ness never night path peace perfect poor praise pray prayer pure Rabbi rejoice Religion seek shine soul strength sweet tender mercy thereof things Thou art Thou hast thou mayest thou shalt Thou wilt thought Thy holy Thy light Thy love Thy majesty Thy name Thy truth thyself true trust unto Thee verily virtue wisdom wise word worship
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Page 10 - Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
Page 21 - If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me ; what then shall I do when God riseth Up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him ? Did not he that made me in the womb, make him ? and did not one fashion us in the womb...
Page 126 - All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.
Page 290 - Almighty God, with whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the Lord, and with whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity...
Page 58 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Page 42 - And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye ' Or how wilt thou (Say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye : and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Page 34 - The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a high-way for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 4 - I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight : I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron...
Page 29 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth, "For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more...
Page 25 - The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul : the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.