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Psalm 115

¹Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake.
²Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
³But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.
⁴Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
⁵They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:
⁶They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:
⁷They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
⁸They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
⁹O Israel, trust thou in the Lord: he is their help and their shield.
¹⁰O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord: he is their help and their shield.
¹¹Ye that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord: he is their help and their shield.
¹²The Lord hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.
¹³He will bless them that fear the Lord, both small and great.
¹⁴The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
¹⁵Ye are blessed of the Lord which made heaven and earth.
¹⁶The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
¹⁷The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence.
¹⁸But we will bless the Lord from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the Lord.

14Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.
²And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
³Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?
⁴Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the Lord will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;
⁵That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
⁶Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
⁷For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the Lord will answer him by myself:
⁸And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
⁹And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the Lord have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
¹⁰And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him;
¹¹That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord God.

4Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
²For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
³For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
⁴That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
⁵Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
⁶That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
⁷For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
⁸He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
⁹But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
¹⁰And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
¹¹And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
¹²That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.