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• • •7 And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to ainherit it.
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12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being aold also?
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1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did atempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
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24 And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto aNahor.• • •
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30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called aEdom.• • •
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• • •11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a ahairy man, and I am a smooth man:• • •19 And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.• • •• • •• • •46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the adaughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
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4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am aJoseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
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• • •8 And I am come adown to bdeliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land cflowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the dCanaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.• • •14 And God said unto Moses, aI AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.• • •
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• • •8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did aswear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the Lord.• • •29 That the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, I am the Lord: speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee.30 And Moses said before the Lord, Behold, I am aof uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?
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26 And said, If thou wilt adiligently bhearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and ckeep all his statutes, I will put none of these ddiseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that ehealeth thee.
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12 I have heard the amurmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God.
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13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my asabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.
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13 And ye shall aeat it in the holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons’ due, of the sacrifices of the Lord made by fire: for so I am commanded.
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44 For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore asanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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• • •6 ¶ None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their anakedness: I am the Lord.• • •• • •30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable acustoms, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God.
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4 ¶ Turn ye not unto aidols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.• • •10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the apoor and stranger: I am the Lord your God.• • •• • •14 ¶ Thou shalt not acurse the bdeaf, nor put a cstumblingblock before the dblind, but shalt fear thy God: I am ethe Lord.• • •16 ¶ Thou shalt not go up and down as a atalebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lord.• • •• • •25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the Lord your God.• • •• • •• • •• • •
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8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the aLord which sanctify you.• • •
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3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the Lord, ahaving his buncleanness upon him, that soul shall be ccut off from my presence: I am the Lord.• • •8 That which adieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the Lord.• • •30 On the same day it shall be aeaten up; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I am the Lord.
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22 ¶ And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the apoor, and to the stranger: I am the Lord your God.• • •43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in abooths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
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22 Ye shall have one manner of alaw, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord your God.
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• • •38 I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.• • •55 For unto me the children of Israel are aservants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
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2 ¶ Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and areverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.• • •13 I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your ayoke, and made you go upright.• • •45 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the asight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.
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13 Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I ahallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the Lord.• • •• • •
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14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too aheavy for me.• • •
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20 ¶ And the Lord spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no ainheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any bpart among them: I am thy part and thine cinheritance among the children of Israel.
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9 ¶ And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to abear you myself alone:• • •
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6 ¶ aI am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
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10 And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, aas he said, these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
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14 And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a agreat people, forasmuch as the Lord hath blessed me hitherto?
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2 And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and stricken in age:• • •
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• • •15 And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the aleast in my father’s house.
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5 And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after aZebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
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9 And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a aLevite of Beth-lehem-judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.
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10 Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take aknowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?
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9 And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a near akinsman.• • •12 And now it is true that I am thy anear kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.
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4 And I thought to advertise thee, saying, aBuy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt bredeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.
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15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have apoured out my soul before the Lord.• • •
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19 And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the aseer: go up before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thine heart.
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2 And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and gray-headed; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have awalked before you from my childhood unto this day.
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7 And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that is in thine heart: aturn thee; behold, I am with thee according to thy heart.
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2 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the Lord said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord.• • •5 And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the Lord: asanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
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23 And Saul’s servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a alight thing to be a king’s son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?
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15 ¶ And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is adeparted from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
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• • •13 ¶ And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.• • •26 I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy alove to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
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39 And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the Lord shall areward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.
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8 And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a adead dog as I am?
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5 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.• • •
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20 For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.• • •22 And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?• • •
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17 And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him, Hear the words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear.• • •
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14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his amercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
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7 And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a alittle child: I know not how to go out or come in.
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14 And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.• • •• • •
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• • •12 And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the Lord shall acarry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the Lord from my youth.• • •36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the aevening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.
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4 ¶ But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a ajuniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.• • •10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they aseek my life, to take it away.• • •
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4 And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have.• • •13 ¶ And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.• • •
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4 And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramoth-gilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, aI am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.• • •34 And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel abetween the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.
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7 And he went and sent to aJehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: bI am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses.
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23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the amultitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
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12 Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall atingle.
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3 And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramoth-gilead? And he answered him, I am as thou art, and my people as thy people; and we will be with thee in the war.• • •
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3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?• • •
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15 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.17 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The aChaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.• • •
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4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.• • •• • •
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20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.• • •• • •
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3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?4 I am as one amocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
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7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no ajudgment.• • •• • •15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.• • •
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15 Therefore am I atroubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
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9 And now am I their asong, yea, I am their byword.• • •• • •29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to aowls.
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6 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.• • •
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3 Thou hast aproved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
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• • •14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my aheart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
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16 Turn thee unto me, and have amercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
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7 The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart atrusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
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9 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my abelly.• • •• • •22 For I said in my ahaste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
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• • •8 I am feeble and sore broken: I ahave roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.• • •
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4 Lord, make me to know mine end, and the ameasure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.• • •• • •
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12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart afaileth me.• • •17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; amake no tarrying, O my God.
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7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am aGod, even thy God.
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8 But I am like a agreen olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
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3 What time I am afraid, I will atrust in thee.
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2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into adeep waters, where the floods overflow me.• • •• • •• • •20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of aheaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.• • •
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5 But I am poor and needy: make ahaste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O Lord, make no tarrying.
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4 I am counted with them that go down into the apit: I am as a man that hath no strength:• • •8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.• • •
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2 aHide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.• • •6 I am like a apelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.• • •
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16 O Lord, truly I am thy aservant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
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19 I am a astranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.• • •• • •83 For I am become like a abottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.• • •• • •• • •• • •125 I am thy aservant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.• • •
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7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for awar.
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14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.• • •
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16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, aI am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
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11 To what purpose is the multitude of your asacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I bdelight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.• • •
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13 For he saith, By the astrength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:
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11 ¶ Surely the princes of aZoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
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12 And the book is delivered to ahim that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
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10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.• • •14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; aundertake for me.
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4 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, the afirst, and with the last; I am he.• • •10 ¶ aFear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
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• • •• • •12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God.13 Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall alet it?• • •15 I am the Lord, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your aKing.• • •25 I, even I, am he that ablotteth out thy btransgressions for mine own csake, and will not remember thy sins.
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• • •16 He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:• • •
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5 ¶ aI am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:6 That they may know from the arising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.• • •• • •
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• • •17 Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which aleadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
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12 I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be aafraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;• • •15 But I am the Lord thy God, that divided the asea, whose waves roared: The Lord of hosts is his name.
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6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that aday that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
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• • •5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am aholier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
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8 Be not aafraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.• • •
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23 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;• • •35 Yet thou sayest, Because I am ainnocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
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21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am ablack; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
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6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.• • •• • •
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13 Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the Lord; which say, aWho shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?
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9 ¶ Mine aheart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the Lord, and because of the words of his holiness.• • •30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false adreams, saith the Lord, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the Lord.
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7 And I will give them an aheart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
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14 As for me, behold, I am in your ahand: do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you.
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11 For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: though I make a full aend of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.
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5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am ashut up; I cannot go into the house of the Lord:
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25 Behold, I am against thee, O adestroying mountain, saith the Lord, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
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11 All her people sigh, they seek abread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O Lord, and consider; for I am become vile.• • •14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.• • •
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8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the asight of the nations.
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7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall aknow that I am the Lord.• • •9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a awhoring after their idols: and they shall blothe themselves for the cevils which they have committed in all their abominations.10 And they shall know that I am the Lord, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.• • •13 Then shall ye know that I am the Lord, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their aidols.
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4 And mine eye shall not aspare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will brecompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall cknow that I am the Lord.• • •9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the Lord that smiteth.• • •27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall aknow that I am the Lord.
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10 Ye shall afall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.• • •
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• • •15 And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall ascatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.16 But I will leave a afew men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the Lord.• • •20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.• • •
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• • •14 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.• • •21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.• • •23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor adivine bdivinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
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63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy amouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.
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• • •7 Then said I unto them, aCast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.• • •• • •19 I am the Lord your God; walk in my astatutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;• • •• • •• • •• • •
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3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my asword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
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16 And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.• • •26 Her apriests have bviolated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no cdifference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my dsabbaths, and I am eprofaned among them.
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49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your aidols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord God.
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• • •27 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more adumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
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5 And I will make aRabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.• • •7 Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.• • •• • •
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3 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up aagainst thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.• • •6 And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall aknow that I am the Lord.
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3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord God; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect abeauty.
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• • •9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.• • •22 And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall abe judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the Lord.24 ¶ And there shall be no more a apricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord God.• • •
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• • •6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because they have been a staff of areed to the house of Israel.• • •9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the Lord: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it.• • •16 And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord God.• • •
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8 And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.• • •• • •22 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.• • •
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• • •• • •31 And ye my aflock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord God.
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3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.• • •9 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy acities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.• • •12 And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, and that I have heard all thy ablasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.• • •
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9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will aturn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:• • •11 And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old aestates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.• • •23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the aheathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord God, when I shall be bsanctified in you before their eyes.• • •38 As the aholy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
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6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.• • •
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3 And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:• • •
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1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against aGog, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:• • •6 And I will send a afire on Magog, and among them that dwell bcarelessly in the cisles: and they shall know that I am the Lord.• • •• • •
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28 And ait shall be unto them for an binheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.
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22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O aDaniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.
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• • •14 Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.• • •20 Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of aGrecia shall come.
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9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not aenter into the city.
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8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.9 And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in atabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
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27 And ye shall know that I am in the amidst of Israel, and that I am the Lord your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
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10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am astrong.• • •
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9 And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the aLord, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.
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4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy atemple.
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8 ¶ But truly I am full of apower by the bspirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his ctransgression, and to Israel his sin.
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15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and awag his hand.
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4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the Lord; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be astrong, all ye people of the land, saith the Lord, and work: for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts:
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14 So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; I am ajealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
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6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the Lord their God, and will ahear them.
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9 For I am a man under aauthority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
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34 Think not that I am come to send apeace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
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15 He saith unto them, But whom say aye that I am?
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• • •22 But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.23 And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my aFather.
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32 I am the aGod of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
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32 But after I am arisen again, I will go before you into Galilee.• • •61 And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the atemple of God, and to build it in three days.
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7 And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.• • •
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27 ¶ And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?• • •29 And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the aChrist.
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38 But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the abaptism that I am baptized with?
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6 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall adeceive many.
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• • •62 And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the aSon of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
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16 John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall abaptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:• • •
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6 Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof:• • •
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18 ¶ And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am?• • •20 He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The aChrist of God.
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3 Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.4 I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.• • •
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11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am anot as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
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27 For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that aserveth.• • •33 And he said unto him, Lord, I am aready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death.• • •58 And after a little while another saw him, and said, Thou art also of them. And Peter said, Man, I am not.• • •
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21 And they asked him, What then? Art thou aElias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.• • •• • •27 He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose ashoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
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7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.• • •
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28 Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is atrue, whom ye know not.29 But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath asent me.• • •• • •
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5 As long as I am in the world, I am the alight of the world.• • •• • •
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7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the adoor of the sheep.• • •9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.10 The thief cometh not, but for to asteal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have blife, and that they might have it more cabundantly.• • •• • •36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath asanctified, and bsent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the cSon of God?
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15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may abelieve; nevertheless let us go unto him.• • •25 Jesus said unto her, I am the aresurrection, and the blife: he that cbelieveth in me, though he were ddead, yet shall he elive:
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26 If any man serve me, let him afollow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.• • •46 I am come a alight into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
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13 Ye call me aMaster and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.• • •19 Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am ahe.• • •33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall aseek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.
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• • •• • •10 Believest thou not that I am in the aFather, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.• • •
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1 I am the true avine, and my Father is the husbandman.• • •
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32 Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not aalone, because the Father is with me.
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• • •14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.• • •16 They are not of the aworld, even as I am not of the world.• • •
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5 They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am he. And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them.• • •• • •17 Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto Peter, Art not thou also one of this man’s disciples? He saith, I am not.• • •25 And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. They said therefore unto him, Art not thou also one of his disciples? He denied it, and said, I am not.• • •
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32 Saying, I am the aGod of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
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26 Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the ablood of all men.
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13 Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to adie at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.• • •39 But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of aTarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.
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• • •8 And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am aJesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.
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6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a aPharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the bhope and cresurrection of the dead I am called in question.
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21 Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the aresurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.
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2 I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews:• • •• • •• • •26 For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.• • •
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23 For there stood by me this night the aangel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
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20 For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the ahope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
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14 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the aBarbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.15 So, as much as in me is, I am aready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.
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• • •24 O awretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
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29 And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the afulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
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12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of aChrist.
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2 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the aseal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.• • •
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1 Be ye afollowers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
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1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not acharity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.• • •
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9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not ameet to be called an apostle, because I bpersecuted the church of God.
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17 I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was alacking on your part they have supplied.
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4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with acomfort, I am exceeding bjoyful in all our ctribulation.• • •
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• • •21 I speak as concerning areproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.• • •• • •
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10 Therefore I take pleasure in ainfirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in bpersecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am cweak, then am I dstrong.11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very achiefest apostles, though I be nothing.• • •14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I aseek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
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1 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three awitnesses shall every word be established.
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11 I am afraid aof you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.• • •18 But it is good to be azealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
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20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak aboldly, as I ought to speak.
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• • •23 For I am ain a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
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11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be acontent.12 I know both how to be aabased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.• • •18 But I have all, and aabound: I am full, having received of bEpaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.
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• • •25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the adispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
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3 Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a adoor of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
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5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother aEunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.• • •12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not aashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
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16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am aholy.
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13 Yea, I think it ameet, as long as I am in this btabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;• • •17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my abeloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
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• • •• • •17 And when I asaw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
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17 Because thou sayest, I am arich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
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10 And I afell at his feet to bworship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy cfellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the dtestimony of Jesus is the spirit of eprophecy.
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9 Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.• • •13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the afirst and the last.• • •
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• • •3 And it mattereth not to me that I am particular to give a full account of all the things of my father, for they cannot be written upon athese plates, for I desire the room that I may write of the things of God.
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8 Yea, even he should go forth and cry in the wilderness: aPrepare ye the way of the Lord, and make his paths straight; for there standeth one among you whom ye know not; and he is mightier than I, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose. And much spake my father concerning this thing.
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48 And now it came to pass that when I had spoken these words they were angry with me, and were desirous to throw me into the depths of the sea; and as they came forth to lay their hands upon me I spake unto them, saying: In the name of the Almighty God, I command you that ye atouch me not, for I am filled with the bpower of God, even unto the consuming of my flesh; and whoso shall lay his hands upon me shall cwither even as a dried reed; and he shall be as naught before the power of God, for God shall smite him.• • •53 And it came to pass that the Lord said unto me: Stretch forth thine hand again unto thy brethren, and they shall not wither before thee, but I will ashock them, saith the Lord, and this will I do, that they may know that I am the Lord their God.• • •55 And now, they said: We know of a surety that the Lord is awith thee, for we know that it is the power of the Lord that has shaken us. And they fell down before me, and were about to bworship me, but I would not suffer them, saying: I am thy brother, yea, even thy younger brother; wherefore, worship the Lord thy God, and honor thy father and thy mother, that thy cdays may be long in the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee.
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12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob, and Israel my called, for I am he; I am the afirst, and I am also the last.
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• • •14 And thus prophesied Joseph, saying: Behold, that seer will the Lord bless; and they that seek to destroy him shall be confounded; for this promise, which I have obtained of the Lord, of the fruit of my loins, shall be fulfilled. Behold, I am sure of the fulfilling of this promise;• • •16 Yea, thus prophesied Joseph: I am sure of this thing, even as I am sure of the promise of Moses; for the Lord hath said unto me, I will apreserve thy seed forever.
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18 I am encompassed about, because of the temptations and the sins which do so easily abeset me.
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3 Nevertheless, I speak unto you again; for I am desirous for the awelfare of your souls. Yea, mine anxiety is great for you; and ye yourselves know that it ever has been. For I have exhorted you with all diligence; and I have taught you the words of my father; and I have spoken unto you concerning all things which are bwritten, from the creation of the world.• • •
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• • •15 But I am the Lord thy God, whose awaves roared; the Lord of Hosts is my name.
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46 Prepare your souls for that glorious day when ajustice shall be administered unto the righteous, even the day of bjudgment, that ye may not shrink with awful fear; that ye may not remember your awful cguilt in perfectness, and be constrained to exclaim: Holy, holy are thy judgments, O Lord God dAlmighty—but I know my guilt; I transgressed thy law, and my transgressions are mine; and the devil hath eobtained me, that I am a prey to his awful misery.
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5 Then said I: Wo is unto me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips; and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have aseen the King, the Lord of Hosts.
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19 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that the Lord God will adeliver again the book and the words thereof to him that is not learned; and the man that is not learned shall say: I am not learned.20 Then shall the Lord God say unto him: The learned shall not read them, for they have rejected them, and I am aable to do mine own work; wherefore thou shalt read the words which I shall give unto thee.21 aTouch not the things which are sealed, for I will bring them forth in mine own due time; for I will show unto the children of men that I am able to do mine own work.• • •
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• • •22 And behold, others he aflattereth away, and telleth them there is no bhell; and he saith unto them: I am no devil, for there is none—and thus he whispereth in their ears, until he grasps them with his awful cchains, from whence there is no deliverance.
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8 Wherefore murmur ye, because that ye shall receive more of my word? Know ye not that the atestimony of btwo nations is a cwitness unto you that I am God, that I remember one dnation like unto another? Wherefore, I speak the same words unto one nation like unto another. And when the two enations shall run together the testimony of the two nations shall run together also.9 And I do this that I may prove unto many that I am the asame yesterday, today, and forever; and that I speak forth my bwords according to mine own pleasure. And because that I have spoken one cword ye need not suppose that I cannot speak another; for my dwork is not yet finished; neither shall it be until the end of man, neither from that time henceforth and forever.• • •14 And it shall come to pass that my people, which are of the ahouse of Israel, shall be gathered home unto the blands of their possessions; and my word also shall be gathered in cone. And I will show unto them that fight against my word and against my dpeople, who are of the ehouse of Israel, that I am God, and that I fcovenanted with gAbraham that I would remember his hseed iforever.
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7 And now I, Nephi, cannot say more; the Spirit stoppeth mine utterance, and I am left to mourn because of the aunbelief, and the wickedness, and the ignorance, and the bstiffneckedness of men; for they will cnot search dknowledge, nor understand great knowledge, when it is given unto them in eplainness, even as plain as word can be.
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2 Now, my beloved brethren, I, Jacob, according to the aresponsibility which I am under to God, to bmagnify mine office with csoberness, and that I might drid my garments of your sins, I come up into the temple this day that I might declare unto you the word of God.
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10 Behold, I, Abinadom, am the son of Chemish. Behold, it came to pass that I saw much war and contention between my people, the Nephites, and the Lamanites; and I, with my own sword, have taken the lives of many of the Lamanites in the defence of my brethren.• • •12 Behold, I am Amaleki, the son of Abinadom. Behold, I will speak unto you somewhat concerning aMosiah, who was made king over the bland of Zarahemla; for behold, he being cwarned of the Lord that he should dflee out of the eland of fNephi, and as many as would hearken unto the voice of the Lord should also gdepart out of the land with him, into the wilderness—• • •30 And I, Amaleki, had a brother, who also went with them; and I have not since known concerning them. And I am about to lie down in my grave; and athese plates are full. And I make an end of my speaking.
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11 But I am like as yourselves, subject to all manner of infirmities in body and mind; yet I have been chosen by this people, and aconsecrated by bmy father, and was suffered by the hand of the Lord that I should be a ruler and a king over this people; and have been kept and preserved by his matchless power, to serve you with all the might, mind and strength which the Lord hath granted unto me.• • •26 And I, even I, whom ye call your king, am ano better than ye yourselves are; for I am also of the dust. And ye behold that I am old, and am about to yield up this mortal frame to its mother earth.• • •28 I say unto you that I have caused that ye should assemble yourselves together that I might arid my garments of your blood, at this period of time when I am about to go down to my grave, that I might go down in peace, and my immortal bspirit may join the cchoirs above in singing the praises of a just God.
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• • •12 And now, when Ammon saw that he was permitted to speak, he went forth and abowed himself before the king; and rising again he said: O king, I am very thankful before God this day that I am yet alive, and am permitted to speak; and I will endeavor to speak with boldness;13 For I am assured that if ye had known me ye would not have suffered that I should have worn these bands. For I am Ammon, and am a adescendant of Zarahemla, and have come up out of the bland of Zarahemla to inquire concerning our brethren, whom cZeniff brought up out of that land.
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12 And I say unto thee again: Knowest thou of any one that can translate? For I am desirous that these records should be translated into our language; for, perhaps, they will give us a knowledge of a remnant of the people who have been destroyed, from whence these records came; or, perhaps, they will give us a knowledge of this very people who have been destroyed; and I am desirous to know the cause of their destruction.
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4 But I must fulfil the commandments wherewith God has commanded me; and because I have told you the truth ye are angry with me. And again, because I have spoken the word of God ye have judged me that I am mad.• • •9 But I finish my message; and then it amatters not whither I go, if it so be that I am saved.
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15 And now behold, can ye dispute the power of God? For behold, doth not my voice shake the earth? And can ye not also abehold me before you? And I am sent from God.• • •24 For, said he, I have repented of my sins, and have been aredeemed of the Lord; behold I am born of the Spirit.• • •28 Nevertheless, after awading through much btribulation, repenting nigh unto death, the Lord in mercy hath seen fit to snatch me out of an ceverlasting burning, and I am born of God.
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44 For I am called to speak after this manner, according to the aholy order of God, which is in Christ Jesus; yea, I am commanded to stand and testify unto this people the things which have been spoken by our fathers concerning the things which are to come.• • •49 And now I say unto you that this is the aorder after which I am called, yea, to preach unto my beloved brethren, yea, and every one that dwelleth in the land; yea, to preach unto all, both old and young, both bond and free; yea, I say unto you the aged, and also the middle aged, and the rising generation; yea, to cry unto them that they must repent and be bborn again.
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15 Blessed art thou, Alma; therefore, lift up thy head and rejoice, for thou hast great cause to rejoice; for thou hast been faithful in keeping the commandments of God from the time which thou receivedst thy first message from him. Behold, I am he that adelivered it unto you.• • •20 And the man said unto him: I am a Nephite, and I know that thou art a holy prophet of God, for thou art the man whom an aangel said in a vision: Thou shalt receive. Therefore, go with me into my house and I will impart unto thee of my bfood; and I know that thou wilt be a blessing unto me and my house.• • •23 And after he had eaten and was filled he said unto Amulek: I am Alma, and am the ahigh priest over the church of God throughout the land.
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2 I am Amulek; I am the son of Giddonah, who was the son of Ishmael, who was a descendant of Aminadi; and it was that same Aminadi who interpreted the awriting which was upon the wall of the temple, which was written by the finger of God.• • •4 And behold, I am also a man of no small areputation among all those who know me; yea, and behold, I have many kindreds and bfriends, and I have also acquired much riches by the hand of my cindustry.
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7 And it came to pass that he began to cry unto the people, saying: Behold, I am aguilty, and these men are spotless before God. And he began to plead for them from that time forth; but they reviled him, saying: Art thou also possessed with the devil? And they spit upon him, and bcast him out from among them, and also all those who believed in the words which had been spoken by Alma and Amulek; and they cast them out, and sent men to cast stones at them.
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17 I say unto you, what is it, that thy marvelings are so great? Behold, I am a aman, and am thy servant; therefore, whatsoever thou desirest which is right, that will I do.• • •• • •
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46 And now it came to pass that Alma said unto him: Behold, I am grieved because of the hardness of your heart, yea, that ye will still resist the spirit of the truth, that thy soul may be destroyed.• • •
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30 O Lord God, how long wilt thou suffer that such wickedness and infidelity shall be among this people? O Lord, wilt thou give me strength, that I may abear with mine infirmities. For I am infirm, and such wickedness among this people doth pain my soul.
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13 Behold, I am in my anger, and also my people; ye have sought to amurder us, and we have only sought to defend ourselves. But behold, if ye seek to destroy us more we will seek to destroy you; yea, and we will seek our land, the land of our first inheritance.• • •16 I am Ammoron, the king of the Lamanites; I am the brother of Amalickiah whom ye have amurdered. Behold, I will avenge his blood upon you, yea, and I will come upon you with my armies for I fear not your threatenings.• • •23 I am Ammoron, and a descendant of aZoram, whom your fathers pressed and brought out of Jerusalem.24 And behold now, I am a bold Lamanite; behold, this war hath been waged to avenge their wrongs, and ato maintain and to obtain their rights to the government; and I close my epistle to Moroni.
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8 And when it was evening Laman went to the guards who were over the Nephites, and behold, they saw him coming and they hailed him; but he saith unto them: Fear not; behold, I am a Lamanite. Behold, we have escaped from the Nephites, and they sleep; and behold we have taken of their wine and brought with us.
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41 And now, my beloved brother, Moroni, may the Lord our God, who has redeemed us and made us free, keep you continually in his presence; yea, and may he favor this people, even that ye may have success in obtaining the possession of all that which the Lamanites have taken from us, which was for our support. And now, behold, I close mine epistle. I am Helaman, the son of Alma.
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34 And now behold, I, Moroni, am constrained, according to the covenant which I have made to keep the commandments of my God; therefore I would that ye should adhere to the word of God, and send speedily unto me of your provisions and of your men, and also to Helaman.• • •
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9 And now, in your epistle you have acensured me, but it mattereth not; I am not angry, but do rejoice in the greatness of your heart. I, Pahoran, do not bseek for power, save only to retain my judgment-seat that I may preserve the rights and the liberty of my people. My soul standeth fast in that liberty in the which God hath made us cfree.
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9 But behold, I am consigned that these are my days, and that my soul shall be filled with asorrow because of this the wickedness of my brethren.
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6 Behold, thou art Nephi, and I am God. Behold, I declare it unto thee in the presence of mine angels, that ye shall have power over this people, and shall smite the earth with afamine, and with pestilence, and destruction, according to the wickedness of this people.
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10 And now, because I am a Lamanite, and have spoken unto you the words which the Lord hath commanded me, and because it was hard against you, ye are angry with me and do seek to destroy me, and have acast me out from among you.
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10 And I write this epistle unto you, Lachoneus, and I hope that ye will deliver up your lands and your possessions, without the shedding of blood, that this my people may recover their rights and agovernment, who have dissented away from you because of your wickedness in retaining from them their rights of government, and except ye do this, I will avenge their wrongs. I am Giddianhi.
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13 Behold, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I have been acalled of him to declare his word among his people, that they might have everlasting life.• • •20 I am Mormon, and a pure adescendant of Lehi. I have reason to bless my God and my Savior Jesus Christ, that he brought our fathers out of the land of Jerusalem, (and bno one knew it save it were himself and those whom he brought out of that land) and that he hath given me and my people so much knowledge unto the salvation of our souls.
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1 aAnd it came to pass that when Jesus had spoken these words unto Nephi, and to those who had been called, (now the number of them who had been called, and received power and authority to bbaptize, was ctwelve) and behold, he stretched forth his hand unto the multitude, and cried unto them, saying: dBlessed are ye if ye shall give heed unto the words of these twelve whom I have echosen from among you to minister unto you, and to be your servants; and unto them I have given power that they may baptize you with water; and after that ye are baptized with water, behold, I will baptize you with fire and with the Holy Ghost; therefore blessed are ye if ye shall believe in me and be baptized, after that ye have seen me and know that I am.2 And again, more blessed are they who shall abelieve in your words because that ye shall testify that ye have seen me, and that ye know that I am. Yea, blessed are they who shall bbelieve in your cwords, and dcome down into the depths of humility and be baptized, for they shall be visited ewith fire and with the Holy Ghost, and shall receive a remission of their sins.• • •
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4 And I command you that ye shall awrite these sayings after I am gone, that if it so be that my people at Jerusalem, they who have seen me and been with me in my ministry, do not ask the Father in my name, that they may receive a knowledge of you by the Holy Ghost, and also of the other tribes whom they know not of, that these sayings which ye shall write shall be kept and shall be manifested unto the bGentiles, that through the fulness of the Gentiles, the remnant of their seed, who shall be scattered forth upon the face of the earth because of their cunbelief, may be brought in, or may be brought to a dknowledge of me, their Redeemer.
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2 I aperceive that ye are weak, that ye cannot bunderstand all my words which I am commanded of the Father to speak unto you at this time.• • •14 And it came to pass that when they had knelt upon the ground, Jesus groaned within himself, and said: Father, I am atroubled because of the wickedness of the people of the house of Israel.
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22 Father, thou hast given them the Holy Ghost because they believe in ame; and thou seest that they believe in me because thou hearest them, and they pray unto me; and they pray unto me because I am with them.
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19 For I will make my apeople with whom the Father hath covenanted, yea, I will make thy bhorn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass. And thou shalt cbeat in pieces many people; and I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth. And behold, I am he who doeth it.• • •23 Behold, I am he of whom Moses spake, saying: aA prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass that every soul who will not hear that prophet shall be cut off from among the people.• • •31 And they shall abelieve in me, that I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and shall pray unto the Father in my name.• • •
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6 For aI am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
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1 And it came to pass when Jesus had said these words, he spake unto his disciples, one by one, saying unto them: What is it that ye adesire of me, after that I am gone to the Father?• • •4 And when he had spoken unto them, he turned himself unto the three, and said unto them: What will ye that I should do unto you, when I am gone unto the Father?• • •
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5 Behold, my father hath made athis record, and he hath written the intent thereof. And behold, I would write it also if I had room upon the bplates, but I have not; and ore I have none, for I am alone. My father hath been slain in battle, and all my kinsfolk, and I have not friends nor whither to go; and chow long the Lord will suffer that I may live I know not.• • •13 Behold, I make an end of speaking concerning this people. I am the son of Mormon, and my father was a adescendant of Nephi.14 And I am the same who ahideth up this record unto the Lord; the plates thereof are of no worth, because of the commandment of the Lord. For he truly saith that no one shall have them bto get gain; but the record thereof is of cgreat worth; and whoso shall bring it to light, him will the Lord bless.
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• • •• • •12 And whatsoever thing persuadeth men to do good is of me; for agood cometh of none save it be of me. I am the same that leadeth men to all good; he that will bnot believe my words will not believe me—that I am; and he that will not believe me will not believe the Father who sent me. For behold, I am the Father, I am the clight, and the dlife, and the etruth of the world.
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10 And now, therefore, let my father send for Akish, the son of Kimnor; and behold, I am fair, and I will dance before him, and I will please him, that he will desire me to wife; wherefore if he shall desire of thee that ye shall give unto him me to wife, then shall ye say: I will give her if ye will bring unto me the ahead of my father, the king.• • •21 And they have caused the adestruction of this people of whom I am now speaking, and also the destruction of the people of Nephi.• • •26 Wherefore, I, Moroni, am commanded to write these things that evil may be done away, and that the time may come that Satan may have ano power upon the hearts of the children of men, but that they may be bpersuaded to do good continually, that they may come unto the fountain of all crighteousness and be saved.
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13 And I was about to write more, but I am forbidden; but great and marvelous were the prophecies of Ether; but they esteemed him as naught, and cast him out; and he ahid himself in the cavity of a rock by day, and by night he went forth viewing the things which should come upon the people.
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24 Behold, I am God and have spoken it; these acommandments are of me, and were given unto my servants in their weakness, after the manner of their blanguage, that they might come to cunderstanding.• • •
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58 I am the alight which shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not.59 I am he who said—aOther bsheep have I which are not of this fold—unto my disciples, and many there were that cunderstood me not.
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2 Behold, I am God; give heed to my aword, which is quick and powerful, sharper than a two-edged sword, to the dividing asunder of both joints and marrow; therefore, give heed unto my word.• • •
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2 Behold, I am God; give heed to my word, which is quick and powerful, sharper than a two-edged sword, to the dividing asunder of both joints and marrow; therefore give heed unto my word.• • •
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8 Be apatient in bafflictions, for thou shalt have many; but cendure them, for, lo, I am with thee, even unto the dend of thy days.• • •10 And thy brother Oliver shall continue in bearing my name before the aworld, and also to the church. And he shall not suppose that he can say enough in my cause; and lo, I am with him to the end.
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15 Keep my commandments continually, and a acrown of brighteousness thou shalt receive. And except thou do this, where I am you ccannot come.
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• • •• • •12 And again, verily, verily, I say unto you, and it hath gone forth in a firm decree, by the will of the Father, that mine aapostles, the Twelve which were with me in my ministry at Jerusalem, shall stand at my right hand at the day of my coming in a pillar of bfire, being clothed with robes of righteousness, with crowns upon their heads, in cglory even as I am, to djudge the whole house of Israel, even as many as have loved me and kept my commandments, and none else.• • •29 And now, behold, I say unto you, never at any time have I declared from mine own mouth that they should return, for awhere I am they cannot come, for they have no power.
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9 Yea, open your mouths and spare not, and you shall be laden with asheaves upon your backs, for lo, I am with you.
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• • •3 I am the same which aspake, and the world was made, and all things came by me.• • •• • •• • •• • •• • •26 For what man among you having twelve sons, and is no respecter of them, and they serve him obediently, and he saith unto the one: Be thou clothed in robes and sit thou here; and to the other: Be thou clothed in rags and sit thou there—and looketh upon his sons and saith I am ajust?27 Behold, this I have given unto you as a parable, and it is even as I am. I say unto you, be aone; and if ye are not one ye are not mine.
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5 Thus saith the Lord; for I am God, and have asent mine bOnly Begotten Son into the world for the credemption of the world, and have decreed that he that receiveth him shall be saved, and he that receiveth him not shall be ddamned—• • •28 Behold, I am Jesus Christ, and I come aquickly. Even so. Amen.
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37 Let my servant Joseph Wakefield, in whom I am well pleased, and my servant aParley P. Pratt go forth among the churches and strengthen them by the word of bexhortation;• • •
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6 Wherefore, verily I say, let the wicked take heed, and let the arebellious bfear and tremble; and let the unbelieving hold their lips, for the cday of wrath shall come upon them as a dwhirlwind, and all flesh shall eknow that I am God.• • •• • •60 Behold, I am aAlpha and Omega, even Jesus Christ.
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10 And again, verily I say unto you that it is your privilege, and a apromise I give unto you that have been ordained unto this ministry, that inasmuch as you bstrip yourselves from cjealousies and dfears, and ehumble yourselves before me, for ye are not sufficiently humble, the fveil shall be rent and you shall gsee me and know that I am—not with the carnal neither natural mind, but with the spiritual.
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2 And that I am the true alight that lighteth every man that cometh into the world;3 And that I am ain the Father, and the Father in me, and the Father and I are one—• • •20 For if you keep my acommandments you shall receive of his bfulness, and be cglorified in me as I am in the Father; therefore, I say unto you, you shall receive dgrace for grace.• • •
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18 Let not your hearts be troubled; for in my Father’s house are amany mansions, and I have prepared a place for you; and where my Father and I am, there ye shall be also.
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41 Therefore, be faithful; and behold, and lo, I am awith you even unto the end. Even so. Amen.
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2 And as for the aperils which I am called to pass through, they seem but a small thing to me, as the benvy and wrath of man have been my common lot all the days of my life; and for what cause it seems mysterious, unless I was cordained from before the foundation of the world for some good end, or bad, as you may choose to call it. Judge ye for yourselves. God dknoweth all these things, whether it be good or bad. But nevertheless, deep water is what I am wont to swim in. It all has become a second nature to me; and I feel, like Paul, to glory in etribulation; for to this day has the God of my fathers delivered me out of them all, and will deliver me from henceforth; for behold, and lo, I shall triumph over all my enemies, for the Lord God hath spoken it.• • •8 For I am about to arestore many things to the earth, pertaining to the bpriesthood, saith the Lord of Hosts.
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• • •12 I am the Lord thy God; and I give unto you this commandment—that no man shall acome unto the Father but by me or by my word, which is my law, saith the Lord.• • •23 But if ye receive me in the world, then shall ye know me, and shall receive your exaltation; that awhere I am ye shall be also.• • •28 I am the Lord thy God, and will give unto thee the alaw of my Holy Priesthood, as was ordained by me and my Father before the world was.• • •40 I am the Lord thy God, and I gave unto thee, my servant Joseph, an aappointment, and restore all things. Ask what ye will, and it shall be given unto you according to my word.• • •49 For I am the Lord thy God, and will be awith thee even unto the bend of the world, and through all eternity; for verily I cseal upon you your dexaltation, and prepare a throne for you in the kingdom of my Father, with Abraham your efather.• • •53 For I am the Lord thy God, and ye shall obey my voice; and I give unto my servant Joseph that he shall be made ruler over many things; for he hath been afaithful over a few things, and from henceforth I will strengthen him.• • •57 And again, I say, let not my servant Joseph put his property out of his hands, lest an enemy come and destroy him; for aSatan bseeketh to destroy; for I am the Lord thy God, and he is my servant; and behold, and lo, I am with him, as I was with Abraham, thy father, even unto his cexaltation and glory.• • •
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1 To seal the testimony of this book and the Book of Mormon, we announce the amartyrdom of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and Hyrum Smith the Patriarch. They were shot in Carthage jail, on the 27th of June, 1844, about five o’clock p.m., by an armed mob—painted black—of from 150 to 200 persons. bHyrum was shot first and fell calmly, exclaiming: I am a cdead man! Joseph leaped from the window, and was shot dead in the attempt, exclaiming: dO Lord my God! They were both shot after they were dead, in a brutal manner, and both received four balls.• • •4 When Joseph went to Carthage to deliver himself up to the pretended requirements of the law, two or three days previous to his assassination, he said: “I am going like a alamb to the slaughter; but I am calm as a summer’s morning; I have a bconscience cvoid of offense towards God, and towards all men. I SHALL DIE INNOCENT, AND IT SHALL YET BE SAID OF ME—HE WAS MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD.”—The same morning, after Hyrum had made ready to go—shall it be said to the slaughter? yes, for so it was—he read the following paragraph, near the close of the twelfth chapter of Ether, in the Book of Mormon, and turned down the leaf upon it:
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• • •48 And it came to pass that Enoch looked upon the aearth; and he heard a voice from the bowels thereof, saying: Wo, wo is me, the mother of men; I am bpained, I am weary, because of the wickedness of my children. When shall I crest, and be dcleansed from the efilthiness which is gone forth out of me? When will my Creator sanctify me, that I may rest, and righteousness for a season abide upon my face?• • •53 And the Lord said: Blessed is he through whose seed Messiah shall come; for he saith—I am aMessiah, the bKing of Zion, the cRock of Heaven, which is broad as deternity; whoso cometh in at the gate and eclimbeth up by me shall never fall; wherefore, blessed are they of whom I have spoken, for they shall come forth with fsongs of everlasting gjoy.
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3 And the Lord said unto me: These are the governing ones; and the name of the great one is aKolob, because it is near unto me, for I am the Lord thy God: I have set this one to govern all those which belong to the same order as that upon which thou standest.• • •19 And the Lord said unto me: These two facts do exist, that there are two spirits, one being more intelligent than the other; there shall be another more intelligent than they; I am the Lord thy God, I am amore intelligent than they all.
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1 aFor I say unto you, that ye shall not see me henceforth and know that I am he of whom it is written by the prophets, until ye shall say: Blessed is he who bcometh in the name of the Lord, in the clouds of heaven, and all the holy angels with him. Then understood his disciples that he should come again on the earth, after that he was glorified and ccrowned on the right hand of God.• • •6 For many shall come in my name, saying—I am aChrist—and shall deceive many;
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20 He again forbade me to join with any of them; and many other things did he say unto me, which I cannot write at this time. When I came to myself again, I found myself alying on my back, looking up into heaven. When the light had departed, I had no strength; but soon recovering in some degree, I went home. And as I leaned up to the fireplace, bmother inquired what the matter was. I replied, “Never mind, all is well—I am well enough off.” I then said to my mother, “I have learned for myself that Presbyterianism is not true.” It seems as though the cadversary was aware, at a very early period of my life, that I was destined to prove a disturber and an annoyer of his kingdom; else why should the powers of darkness combine against me? Why the dopposition and persecution that arose against me, almost in my infancy?• • •28 During the space of time which intervened between the time I had the vision and the year eighteen hundred and twenty-three—having been forbidden to join any of the religious sects of the day, and being of very tender years, and persecuted by those who ought to have been my afriends and to have treated me kindly, and if they supposed me to be deluded to have endeavored in a proper and affectionate manner to have reclaimed me—I was left to all kinds of btemptations; and, mingling with all kinds of society, I frequently fell into many foolish cerrors, and displayed the weakness of youth, and the foibles of human nature; which, I am sorry to say, led me into divers temptations, offensive in the sight of God. In making this confession, no one need suppose me guilty of any great or malignant sins. A disposition to commit such was never in my nature. But I was guilty of dlevity, and sometimes associated with jovial company, etc., not consistent with that character which ought to be maintained by one who was ecalled of God as I had been. But this will not seem very strange to any one who recollects my youth, and is acquainted with my native fcheery temperament.
Saturday, November 9, 2013
"I am"
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