麥克謙一年通讀

Paul's Greeting and Salvation in Christ

¹Pavl an Apostle (not of men, neither by man, but by Iesus Christ, and God the Father which hath raised him from the dead)

²And all the brethren which are with me, vnto the Churches of Galatia:

³Grace be with you, and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Iesus Christ,

⁴Which gaue himself for our sinnes, that he might deliuer vs from this present euill world according to the will of God euen our Father,

⁵To whom be glory for euer and euer, Amen.

There Is No Other Gospel

⁶I marueile that ye are so soone remoued away vnto another Gospel, from him that had called you in the grace of Christ,

⁷Which is not another Gospel, saue that there be some which trouble you, and intend to peruert the Gospel of Christ.

⁸But though that we, or an Angel from heauen preach vnto you otherwise, then that which we haue preached vnto you, let him be accursed.

⁹As we sayd before, so say I now againe, If any man preach vnto you otherwise, then that ye haue receiued, let him be accursed.

¹⁰For nowe preach I mans doctrine, or Gods? or go I about to please men? for if I should yet please men, I were not the seruant of Christ.

The Gospel Received by Revelation, Not from Man

¹¹Now I certifie you, brethren, that ye Gospel which was preached of me, was not after man.

¹²For neither receiued I it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the reuelation of Iesus Christ.

¹³For ye haue heard of my conuersation in time past, in the Iewish religion, how that I persecuted the Church of God extremely, and wasted it,

¹⁴And profited in the Iewish religion aboue many of my companions of mine owne nation, and was much more zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

¹⁵But when it pleased God (which had separated me from my mothers wombe, and called me by his grace)

¹⁶To reueile his Sonne in me, that I should preach him among the Gentiles, immediatly I communicated not with flesh and blood:

¹⁷Neither came I againe to Hierusalem to them which were Apostles before me, but I went into Arabia, and turned againe vnto Damascus.

Paul's Activity Apart from the Jerusalem Church

¹⁸Then after three yeeres I came againe to Hierusalem to visite Peter, and abode with him fifteene dayes.

¹⁹And none other of the Apostles sawe I, saue Iames the Lords brother.

²⁰Nowe the things which I write vnto you, beholde, I witnes before God, that I lie not.

²¹After that, I went into the coastes of Syria and Cilicia: for I was vnknowen by face vnto the Churches of Iudea, which were in Christ.

²²But they had heard onely some say, Hee which persecuted vs in time past, nowe preacheth the faith which before he destroyed.

²³And they glorified God for me.

The Pride of Tyre's King Who Claimed to Be a God

¹The word of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying,

²Sonne of man, say vnto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saieth the Lord God, Because thine heart is exalted, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God in ye mids of the sea, yet thou art but a man and not God, and though thou didest thinke in thine heart, that thou wast equall with God,

³Behold, thou art wiser then Daniel: there is no secrete, that they can hide from thee.

⁴With thy wisedome and thine vnderstanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten golde and siluer into thy treasures.

⁵By thy great wisedome and by thine occupying hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted vp because of thy riches.

⁶Therefore thus sayeth the Lord God, Because thou didest thinke in thine heart, that thou wast equall with God,

⁷Behold, therefore I wil bring strangers vpon thee, euen the terrible nations: and they shall drawe their swordes against the beautie of thy wisedome, and they shall defile thy brightnes.

⁸They shall cast thee downe to the pit, and thou shalt die the death of them, that are slaine in the middes of the sea.

⁹Wilt thou say then before him, that slayeth thee, I am a god? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hands of him that slayeth thee.

¹⁰Thou shalt die the death of the vncircumcised by the hands of stragers: for I haue spoken it, sayth the Lord God.

A Lament for the King of Tyre Who Was in Eden

¹¹Moreouer the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

¹²Sonne of man, take vp a lamentation vpon the King of Tyrus, and say vnto him, Thus sayeth the Lord God, Thou sealest vp the summe, and art full of wisedome and perfite in beautie.

¹³Thou hast ben in Eden the garden of God: euery precious stone was in thy garment, the rubie, the topaze and the diamonde, the chrysolite, the onix, and the iasper, the saphir, emeraude, and the carbuncle and golde: the woorkemanship of thy timbrels, and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

¹⁴Thou art the anointed Cherub, that couereth, and I haue set thee in honour: thou wast vpon the holy mountaine of God: thou hast walked in the middes of the stones of fire.

¹⁵Thou wast perfite in thy wayes from the day that thou wast created, till iniquitie was found in thee.

¹⁶By the multitude of thy marchandise, they haue filled the middes of thee with crueltie, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as prophane out of the mountaine of God: and I will destroy thee, O couering Cherub from the mids of the stones of fire.

¹⁷Thine heart was lifted vp because of thy beautie, and thou hast corrupted thy wisedome by reason of thy brightnes: I wil cast thee to ye grounde: I will lay thee before Kinges that they may beholde thee.

¹⁸Thou hast defiled thy sanctification by the multitude of thine iniquities, and by the iniquitie of thy marchandise: therefore wil I bring forth a fire from the mids of thee, which shall deuoure thee: and I wil bring thee to ashes vpon the earth, in the sight of all them that beholde thee.

¹⁹All they that knowe thee among the people, shalbe astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terrour, and neuer shalt thou be any more.

Judgment Against Sidon and the Restoration of Israel

²⁰Againe, the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

²¹Sonne of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesie against it,

²²And say, Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I come against thee, O Zidon, and I will be glorified in the mids of thee: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall haue executed iudgements in her, and shalbe sanctified in her.

²³For I wil send into her pestilence, and blood into her streetes, and the slaine shall fall in the middes of her: the enemie shall come against her with the sword on euery side, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

²⁴And they shalbe no more a pricking thorne vnto the house of Israel, nor any grieuous thorne of all that are round about them, and despised them, and they shall knowe that I am the Lord God.

²⁵Thus saith the Lord God, When I shall haue gathered the house of Israel from the people where they are scattered, and shalbe sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwel in the land, that I haue giuen to my seruant Iaakob.

²⁶And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall builde houses, and plant vineyards: yea, they shall dwell safely, when I haue executed iudgements vpon al round about them that despise them, and they shall knowe that I am the Lord their God.

A Night Meditation Remembering Ancient Wonders

¹For the excellent musician Ieduthun. A Psalme committed to Asaph. My voyce came to God, when I cryed: my voyce came to God, and he heard me.

²In the day of my trouble I sought ye Lord: my sore ranne and ceased not in the night: my soule refused comfort.

³I did thinke vpon God, and was troubled: I praied, and my spirit was full of anguish. Selah.

⁴Thou keepest mine eyes waking: I was astonied and could not speake.

⁵Then I considered the daies of olde, and the yeeres of ancient time.

⁶I called to remembrance my song in the night: I communed with mine owne heart, and my spirit searched diligently.

⁷Will the Lord absent him selfe for euer? and will he shewe no more fauour?

⁸Is his mercie cleane gone for euer? doeth his promise faile for euermore?

⁹Hath God forgotten to be mercifull? hath he shut vp his teder mercies in displeasure? Selah.

¹⁰And I sayde, This is my death: yet I remembred the yeeres of the right hand of the most High.

¹¹I remembred the workes of the Lord: certainely I remembred thy wonders of olde.

¹²I did also meditate all thy woorkes, and did deuise of thine actes, saying,

¹³Thy way, O God, is in the Sanctuarie: who is so great a God as our God!

¹⁴Thou art ye God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy power among the people.

¹⁵Thou hast redeemed thy people with thine arme, euen the sonnes of Iaakob and Ioseph. Selah.

¹⁶The waters sawe thee, O God: the waters sawe thee, and were afraide: yea, the depths trembled.

¹⁷The cloudes powred out water: the heauens gaue a sounde: yea, thine arrowes went abroade.

¹⁸The voyce of thy thunder was rounde about: the lightnings lightened the worlde: the earth trembled and shooke.

¹⁹Thy way is in the Sea, and thy paths in the great waters, and thy footesteps are not knowen.

²⁰Thou diddest leade thy people like sheepe by the hand of Moses and Aaron.