Blessed Life Universal

(Putative, Presumed,Foster,Adopted, affliction the second time for commenced petition)

(Mother [GOD] birth and natural)

1. What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

2. Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings that publisheth peace. O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.

3. Behold ye among the heathen, and regard and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.

4. Art thou not everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and O might God, thou hast established them for crrection.

5. And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision,and make it plain upon table, that he may run that readeth it.

6. Yea also because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

7. Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest up on high, that he may be delivered from the power ofevil!

8. Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by inquiry!

Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

9. What profiteth the graven itl; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

10. God come from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.

11. What do ye imagine against thee LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

12. Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth the good tidings, that publisheth peace. O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for wicked shall no more pass through thee; he utterly cutt off.

The Prophet:

Jeremiah

Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Moreover, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled? O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee? The LORD said also unto me in the day of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the larlot. A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God. My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heary maketh a moise in me; I cannot hold my peace, becasue thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end. Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S. And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Whereofre doth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours?

A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets. Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God ofIsrael; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices: and eat flesh

Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not rise? shall he turn away, and not return? When Iwould comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me. For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burnt up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the might man flory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:

Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress. O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

What hath my beloved to do in minehouse, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand:

If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?

I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them our of thier land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word: Thus said the LORD GOD of Israel, Every bottle shall bhe filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken. O LORD, though our inquitities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee. Then said I, Ah LORD GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine, and by the pestilence. Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me. O lORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. Therefore this saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile; but return not thou unto them. Therefore behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall mo more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Eqypt; Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm,and whose heart departeth from the LORD. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperatley wicked: who can know it? A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem; Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither, whither the Lord had sent him to prophsey; and he stood in the court of the LORD"S house; and said to all thepeople,

First, would like to think my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold truth in unrighteousness;

For this cause God gave them up unto wile affections: for even their women did change natural use into that which is against nature.

Behold, thou art called a Jew, and retest in the law, and makest thy boast of God.

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.

Wherefore , as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned;

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid. But rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provide them to jealousy. For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened in Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearcheable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

And that, knowing that time, that now it is high time to awake out sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

But why dost thou judge thy brother? Or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucious, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.

Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the relavtion of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,

Written to the Romans from Corinthus, and sent by Phebe servant of the church at Cenchrea

I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye shall speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel; not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect;

Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not that wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought;

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Who is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even after the Lord gave every man?

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And these things,brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you puffed up for one against another.

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

How is it then, brethrenm when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.

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.

Now if CHirst be preached that he rose form the dead, how say some among you that there is resurrection of the dead?

Now this I say, brethren, ( ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruit of Archaia, and that thy have addicted themseves to the ministry of the saints.)

The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.

The first epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi by Stephana, and fortunatus, and Achaicus, and Timotheus.

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Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christm the Father of mercies, and the God of all comforts;

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity an dgodly sincerity, not withfleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to youwards.

Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

But if any have cause grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.

Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the Excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

Wherefore we labour, that, whether in the present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

O ye Corinthesians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Again, think you that we excuse ourselves unto you? We speak before God in Christ:

but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all Amen.

The second epistle to the Coriinthians was wtritten from Philippi, at city of Macedonia, by Titus Lucas.

I marvel that you are soon removed from him that called you into the grveof Christ unto another gospel;

But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.

But when Peter was come to Antiochm I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.

Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of teansgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of the mediator.

Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.

Tell me, ye that desire to the under the law, do ye not hear the law?

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand.

Unto the Galatians from Rome

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christm who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ;

Wherefor I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,

Wherefore remember, that ye being in time passed Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncirmucision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind.

Wherefore putting away lying,speaking every man truth with his neighboour: we are members one of another.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands, as unto the Lord.

Servants, be obediant to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and tremblingm in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ.

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

But that ye also may know my affairs and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you alol things:

Writtenfrom Rome unto the Ephesians by Tychicus

I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furthernance of the gospel;

Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Chirst; that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind stirving together for the faithof the gospel; But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.

Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an example.

Rejoice in the Lord always; and again I say Rejoice.

But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also carefulm but ye lacked opportunity.

Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet you.

It was written to the Philippians from Rome by Epaphroditus.

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

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 knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understandings;

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

Beware elst any manspoil you through philosephy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudibully.

Let no man therefore judge you in meatm or in drink, or in respect of the holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon evil concupscience, and covetousness, which is idolarity:

Wives, submit yourselves, unto your husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;

All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellow-servant in the Lord.

Written from ROme to the Colossians by Tychicus and Onesimus.

We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;

But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavourer the more abundantly to see your face with f=great desire;

But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning then which are alseep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

And we beseech you, brethren, to know them work's labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

Brethren, pray for us.

The first epistle unto the Thessalonians was written from Athens.

We bound to thank God always unto you, brethrenm as it is meet, becaue that your faith growth exceedingly, and the charity of everyone of you all towards eachother abundeth;

But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because Gad hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;

We command you, brthren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

The salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in every epistles: so I write

The second epistle to the Thessaionians was written Athens.

As I besought thee to abide still as Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightiest charge some that they teach no other doctrine.

These things write unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly:

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believer's, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

Let elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

The first Timothy was written from Laodicea, which is the chiefest city of Phrygia Pacatiana.

I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, taht withyour they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hears.

Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:

Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.

The second epistle unto Timotheus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Ephesians, was written from Rome, when Paul was brought before Nero the second time.

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee.

When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligently, that nothing they be not unfruitful.

It was written to Titus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Cretians, from Nicopolis of Macedonia.

Paul, a prisoners of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer,

I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers,

Written from the Rome to Philemon, by Onesimus a servant.

For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak:

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

But beloved, we are persuaded better things of you and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

For such a high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, andmade higher than the heavens;

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second time. And for this cuase he is the mediator of the new testiment, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. Having therefore, brethren boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus.

For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth there remaineth no more sacrifices for sins;

And what shalt I say more? For the time would fail me to tell Gedeon, and Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving temptest.

Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant.