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The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
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And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
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But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.
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I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.
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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:
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But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:
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And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD.
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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:
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But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.
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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
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But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
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But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:
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And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD.
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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
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But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:
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And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.
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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
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But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
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That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
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And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
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Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
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Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
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And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.
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But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
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Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
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Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
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Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.
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And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.
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Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,
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You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
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Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
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Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
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Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?
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Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
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Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
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The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
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Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.
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For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.
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Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.
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Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
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That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.
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And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.
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Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
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Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
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And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
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Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
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And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
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Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
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Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
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He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
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Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
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In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
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For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
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Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
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Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
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We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
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Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
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Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
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But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
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My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
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And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
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For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
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Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
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And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
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And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
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And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
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Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
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Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
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And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
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Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
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They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
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We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
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Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
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In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
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Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
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Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
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No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
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Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
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And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
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Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
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And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
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Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
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There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
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We love him, because he first loved us.
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If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
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And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
