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Page 53 - Let your women keep silence in the churches : for it is not permitted unto them to speak ; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. 35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home ; for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
Page 20 - And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Page 215 - Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Page 226 - But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. 34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
Page 75 - The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
Page 5 - HAVING therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Page 230 - I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.
Page 34 - Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.
Page 192 - Amazing grace how sweet the sound / That saves a wretch like me . . .") LIZA (listening) They done started "Amazing grace." (music continues as a background for their talk) (still eating) That music she is sweet but I got to finish eatin first, then I'll go ... SUE I ast you whut you know good. LIZA Well, I don't know nothin tall good, but I did hear as how the...
Page 223 - Lily of the Valley 1) I have found a friend in Jesus, He's everything to me; He's the fairest of ten thousand to my soul; The Lily of the Valley, in Him alone l see, All I need to cleanse and make me fully whole.