Job chapter 34

Furthermore Elihu answered and said,

Hear my words, O you wise men; and give ear to me, you that have knowledge.

For the ear tries words, as the mouth tastes meat.

Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.

For Job has said, I am righteous: and God has taken away my judgment.

Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.

What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water?

Which goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men.

For he has said, It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

Therefore listen to me you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

For the work of a man shall he render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

Yes, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.

Who has given him a charge over the earth? or who has disposed the whole world?

If he set his heart on man, if he gather to himself his spirit and his breath;

All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again to dust.

If now you have understanding, hear this: listen to the voice of my words.

Shall even he that hates right govern? and will you condemn him that is most just?

Is it fit to say to a king, You are wicked? and to princes, You are ungodly?

How much less to him that accepts not the persons of princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

For his eyes are on the ways of man, and he sees all his goings.

There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

For he will not lay on man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.

He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.

Therefore he knows their works, and he overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;

Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:

So that they cause the cry of the poor to come to him, and he hears the cry of the afflicted.

When he gives quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hides his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:

That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.

Surely it is meet to be said to God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:

That which I see not teach you me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

Should it be according to your mind? he will recompense it, whether you refuse, or whether you choose; and not I: therefore speak what you know.

Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man listen to me.

Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.

My desire is that Job may be tried to the end because of his answers for wicked men.

For he adds rebellion to his sin, he clapps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.

1 Corinthians chapter 4

Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yes, I judge not my own self.

For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judges me is the Lord.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

And these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

For who makes you to differ from another? and what have you that you did not receive? now if you did receive it, why do you glory, as if you had not received it?

Now you are full, now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are despised.

Even to this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place;

And labor, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things to this day.

I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.

For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have you not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

Why I beseech you, be you followers of me.

For this cause have I sent to you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.

For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

What will you? shall I come to you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

1 Corinthians chapter 5

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that has done this deed might be taken away from among you.

For I truly, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that has so done this deed,

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

To deliver such an one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

I wrote to you in an letter not to company with fornicators:

Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortionists, or with idolaters; for then must you needs go out of the world.

But now I have written to you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortionist; with such an one no not to eat.

For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not you judge them that are within?

But them that are without God judges. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

1 Corinthians chapter 6

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Know you not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

If then you have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.

I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brothers?

But brother goes to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

No, you do wrong, and defraud, and that your brothers.

Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortionists, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

And God has both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

What? know you not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, said he, shall be one flesh.

But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is without the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

What? know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own?

For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

Job chapter 34

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