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Ruth Chapter 1:1

Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

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And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.

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And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.

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And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.

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And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.

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Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.

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Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah.

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And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.

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The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.

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And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people.

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And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

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Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;

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Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.

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And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.

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And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.

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And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:

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Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.

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When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.

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So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?

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And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

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I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?

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So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

Psalm Chapter 119:105

NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

John Chapter 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Acts Chapter 4:13

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.

Romans Chapter 5:3

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

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And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

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And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Romans Chapter 6:23

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans Chapter 12:2

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Galatians Chapter 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

Galatians Chapter 5:23

Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Philippians Chapter 4:8

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Colossians Chapter 1:1

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother,

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To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

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Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,

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For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

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Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:

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As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;

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Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

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For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

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That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

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Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

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Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

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Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

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In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

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Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

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For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

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And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

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And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

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For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;

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And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

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And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

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In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

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If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

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Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:

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Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;

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Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:

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To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

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Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:

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Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

James Chapter 1:1

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

James Chapter 1:2

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

James Chapter 1:3

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

James Chapter 1:4

But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

James Chapter 1:5

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

James Chapter 1:6

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

James Chapter 1:7

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

James Chapter 1:8

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

James Chapter 1:9

Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

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But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

James Chapter 1:11

For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

James Chapter 1:12

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

James Chapter 1:13

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

James Chapter 1:14

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

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Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

James Chapter 1:16

Do not err, my beloved brethren.

James Chapter 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

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Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

James Chapter 1:19

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

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For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

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Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

James Chapter 1:22

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

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For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

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For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

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But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

James Chapter 1:26

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

James Chapter 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

2 Peter Chapter 1:5

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

2 Peter Chapter 1:6

And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

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And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

1 John Chapter 2:1

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

1 John Chapter 2:2

And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

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And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

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He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

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But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

1 John Chapter 2:6

He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

1 John Chapter 2:7

Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.

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Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.

1 John Chapter 2:9

He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.

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He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.

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But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

1 John Chapter 2:12

I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.

1 John Chapter 2:13

I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.

1 John Chapter 2:14

I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

1 John Chapter 2:15

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

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And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

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Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

1 John Chapter 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

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But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.

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I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

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Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

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Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.

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Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

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And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

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These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.

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But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

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And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

1 John Chapter 2:29

If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.

1 John Chapter 4:8

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

1 John Chapter 5:1

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

1 John Chapter 5:2

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

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For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

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For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

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Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

1 John Chapter 5:6

This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.

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For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

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And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

1 John Chapter 5:9

If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.

1 John Chapter 5:10

He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

1 John Chapter 5:11

And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

1 John Chapter 5:12

He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

1 John Chapter 5:13

These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

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And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:

1 John Chapter 5:15

And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

1 John Chapter 5:16

If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.

1 John Chapter 5:17

All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.

1 John Chapter 5:18

We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

1 John Chapter 5:19

And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

1 John Chapter 5:20

And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

1 John Chapter 5:21

Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

Revelation Chapter 1:1

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: