1 Chronicles 17

• 1. Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.
• 2. Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee.
• 3. And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
• 4. Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:
• 5. For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.
• 6. Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?
• 7. Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:
• 8. And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.
• 9. Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,
• 10. And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house.
• 11. And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
• 12. He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.
• 13. I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee:
• 14. But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore.
• 15. According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
• 16. And David the king came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who am I, O LORD God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?
• 17. And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God.
• 18. What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.
• 19. O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.
• 20. O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
• 21. And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?
• 22. For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
• 23. Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said.
• 24. Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and let the house of David thy servant be established before thee.
• 25. For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to pray before thee.
• 26. And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:
• 27. Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever.

James 4

• 1. From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
• 2. Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
• 3. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
• 4. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
• 5. Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
• 6. But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
• 7. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
• 8. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
• 9. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
• 10. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
• 11. Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
• 12. There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
• 13. Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
• 14. Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
• 15. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
• 16. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
• 17. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Jonah 1

• 1. Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
• 2. Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
• 3. But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
• 4. But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
• 5. Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
• 6. So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
• 7. And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
• 8. Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?
• 9. And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.
• 10. Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him. Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.
• 11. Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.
• 12. And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
• 13. Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.
• 14. Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.
• 15. So they look up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.
• 16. Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.
• 17. Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

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