Sermon on the Mountain XLVIII

When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. . .

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And the land was not able to bear them, that they - might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. . .

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And I will put enmity between thee and the work-man, and between thy seed and her seed;

it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his he-el.

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 And there was a strife - between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle:

and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, - between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.

Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, - from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

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 . . .Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

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For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

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And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; - though they be red like crimson, - they shall be as wool.

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re-proach

 (ri-proch)v. tr. re-proached, re-proach-ing, re-proach-es. 1. To express disapproval of, criticism of, or disappointment in (someone). See Synonyms at admonish. 2. To bring shame upon; disgrace.n. 1. Blame; rebuke. 2. One that causes rebuke or blame. 3. Disgrace; shame. --idiom. beyond reproach. So good as to preclude any possibility of criticism.[Middle English reprochen, from Old French reprochier, from Vulgar Latin *repropiare : Latin re-, re- + Latin prope, near. See per1.]--re-proach'a-ble adj. --re-proach'a-ble-ness n. --re-proach'a-bly adv. --re-proach'er n.

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Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.

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If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

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A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit,

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The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

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And the Lord commanded me - at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.

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And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us - after the manner of all the earth:

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Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:

Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,

The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters - beneath the earth:

And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

But the Lord hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.

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neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

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