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Matthew 4

  • 4:1  Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
  • 4:2  And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered.
  • 4:3  And when the tempter came to him, he said, If you be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
  • 4:4  But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
  • 4:5  Then the devil takes him up into the holy city, and sets him on a pinnacle of the temple,
  • 4:6  And said to him, If you be the Son of God, cast yourself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning you: and in their hands they shall bear you up, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone.
  • 4:7  Jesus said to him, It is written again, You shall not tempt the Lord your God.
  • 4:8  Again, the devil takes him up into an exceeding high mountain, and shows him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
  • 4:9  And said to him, All these things will I give you, if you will fall down and worship me.
  • 4:10  Then said Jesus to him, Get you hence, Satan: for it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.
  • 4:11  Then the devil leaves him, and, behold, angels came and ministered to him.
  • 4:12  Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee;
  • 4:13  And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelled in Capernaum, which is on the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim:
  • 4:14  That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,
  • 4:15  The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;
  • 4:16  The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
  • 4:17  From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
  • 4:18  And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
  • 4:19  And he said to them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
  • 4:20  And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.
  • 4:21  And going on from there, he saw other two brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.
  • 4:22  And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.
  • 4:23  And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
  • 4:24  And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought to him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
  • 4:25  And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan.

Matthew 3

  • 3:1  In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,
  • 3:2  And saying, Repent you: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
  • 3:3  For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
  • 3:4  And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leather girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
  • 3:5  Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan,
  • 3:6  And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
  • 3:7  But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said to them, O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
  • 3:8  Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
  • 3:9  And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say to you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
  • 3:10  And now also the ax is laid to the root of the trees: therefore every tree which brings not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
  • 3:11  I indeed baptize you with water to repentance. but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
  • 3:12  Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
  • 3:13  Then comes Jesus from Galilee to Jordan to John, to be baptized of him.
  • 3:14  But John forbade him, saying, I have need to be baptized of you, and come you to me?
  • 3:15  And Jesus answering said to him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becomes us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
  • 3:16  And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, see, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting on him:
  • 3:17  And see a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Matthew 2

  • 2:1  Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
  • 2:2  Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
  • 2:3  When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
  • 2:4  And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
  • 2:5  And they said to him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet,
  • 2:6  And you Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, are not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of you shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
  • 2:7  Then Herod, when he had privately called the wise men, inquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.
  • 2:8  And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when you have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.
  • 2:9  When they had heard the king, they departed; and, see, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
  • 2:10  When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.
  • 2:11  And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented to him gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh.
  • 2:12  And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
  • 2:13  And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appears to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be you there until I bring you word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
  • 2:14  When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:
  • 2:15  And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
  • 2:16  Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
  • 2:17  Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying,
  • 2:18  In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
  • 2:19  But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appears in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
  • 2:20  Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child’s life.
  • 2:21  And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.
  • 2:22  But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:
  • 2:23  And he came and dwelled in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.

Matthew 1

  • 1:1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
  • 1:2 Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brothers;
  • 1:3 And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;
  • 1:4 And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon;
  • 1:5 And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;
  • 1:6 And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;
  • 1:7  And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa;
  • 1:8  And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias;
  • 1:9  And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz begat Ezekias;
  • 1:10  And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias;
  • 1:11  And Josias begat Jechonias and his brothers, about the time they were carried away to Babylon:
  • 1:12  And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias begat Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel;
  • 1:13  And Zorobabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor;
  • 1:14  And Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud;
  • 1:15  And Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob;
  • 1:16  And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
  • 1:17  So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon to Christ are fourteen generations.
  • 1:18  Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
  • 1:19  Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privately.
  • 1:20  But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, you son of David, fear not to take to you Mary your wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
  • 1:21  And she shall bring forth a son, and you shall call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
  • 1:22  Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
  • 1:23  Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
  • 1:24  Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took to him his wife:
  • 1:25  And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.

Malachi 4

  • 4:1 For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yes, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that comes shall burn them up, said the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
  • 4:2 But to you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and you shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
  • 4:3 And you shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, said the LORD of hosts.
  • 4:4 Remember you the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
  • 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
  • 4:6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Malachi 3

  • 3:1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom you delight in: behold, he shall come, said the LORD of hosts.
  • 3:2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appears? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
  • 3:3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer to the LORD an offering in righteousness.
  • 3:4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant to the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
  • 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, said the LORD of hosts.
  • 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed.
  • 3:7 Even from the days of your fathers you are gone away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, said the LORD of hosts. But you said, Wherein shall we return?
  • 3:8 Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, Wherein have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings.
  • 3:9 You are cursed with a curse: for you have robbed me, even this whole nation.
  • 3:10 Bring you all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house, and prove me now herewith, said the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
  • 3:11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, said the LORD of hosts.
  • 3:12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for you shall be a delightsome land, said the LORD of hosts.
  • 3:13 Your words have been stout against me, said the LORD. Yet you say, What have we spoken so much against you?
  • 3:14 You have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
  • 3:15 And now we call the proud happy; yes, they that work wickedness are set up; yes, they that tempt God are even delivered.
  • 3:16 Then they that feared the LORD spoke often one to another: and the LORD listened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought on his name.
  • 3:17 And they shall be mine, said the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him.
  • 3:18 Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not.

Malachi 2

  • 2:1 And now, O you priests, this commandment is for you.
  • 2:2 If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, said the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings: yes, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.
  • 2:3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
  • 2:4 And you shall know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant might be with Levi, said the LORD of hosts.
  • 2:5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear with which he feared me, and was afraid before my name.
  • 2:6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
  • 2:7 For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
  • 2:8 But you are departed out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, said the LORD of hosts.
  • 2:9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as you have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
  • 2:10 Have we not all one father? has not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
  • 2:11 Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and has married the daughter of a strange god.
  • 2:12 The LORD will cut off the man that does this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offers an offering to the LORD of hosts.
  • 2:13 And this have you done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, so that he regards not the offering any more, or receives it with good will at your hand.
  • 2:14 Yet you say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously: yet is she your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
  • 2:15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And why one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
  • 2:16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, said that he hates putting away: for one covers violence with his garment, said the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that you deal not treacherously.
  • 2:17 You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, Wherein have we wearied him? When you say, Every one that does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

Malachi 1

  • 1:1 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
  • 1:2 I have loved you, said the LORD. Yet you say, Wherein have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? said the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
  • 1:3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
  • 1:4 Whereas Edom said, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus said the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD has indignation for ever.
  • 1:5 And your eyes shall see, and you shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.
  • 1:6 A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honor? and if I be a master, where is my fear? said the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, that despise my name. And you say, Wherein have we despised your name?
  • 1:7 You offer polluted bread on my altar; and you say, Wherein have we polluted you? In that you say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.
  • 1:8 And if you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if you offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now to your governor; will he be pleased with you, or accept your person? said the LORD of hosts.
  • 1:9 And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious to us: this has been by your means: will he regard your persons? said the LORD of hosts.
  • 1:10 Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nothing? neither do you kindle fire on my altar for nothing. I have no pleasure in you, said the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
  • 1:11 For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, said the LORD of hosts.
  • 1:12 But you have profaned it, in that you say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.
  • 1:13 You said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and you have snuffed at it, said the LORD of hosts; and you brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus you brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? said the LORD.
  • 1:14 But cursed be the deceiver, which has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the LORD a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, said the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.

Zechariah 14

  • 14:1 Behold, the day of the LORD comes, and your spoil shall be divided in the middle of you.
  • 14:2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
  • 14:3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
  • 14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day on the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall split in the middle thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
  • 14:5 And you shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal: yes, you shall flee, like as you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with you.
  • 14:6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
  • 14:7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
  • 14:8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
  • 14:9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
  • 14:10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel to the king’s winepresses.
  • 14:11 And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
  • 14:12 And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
  • 14:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor.
  • 14:14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.
  • 14:15 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.
  • 14:16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
  • 14:17 And it shall be, that whoever will not come up of all the families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even on them shall be no rain.
  • 14:18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, with which the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
  • 14:19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
  • 14:20 In that day shall there be on the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
  • 14:21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness to the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.

Zechariah 13

  • 13:1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.
  • 13:2 And it shall come to pass in that day, said the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
  • 13:3 And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say to him, You shall not live; for you speak lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesies.
  • 13:4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he has prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:
  • 13:5 But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an farmer; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.
  • 13:6 And one shall say to him, What are these wounds in your hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
  • 13:7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, said the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand on the little ones.
  • 13:8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, said the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
  • 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.