And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
But you, Bethlehem Ephratah, though you be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall he come forth to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour:
But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.
And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.
Jacob and Esau – Genesis 25 19 And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham begat Isaac: 20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian. 21 And...
