麥克謙一年通讀

Paul's Greeting and Salvation in Christ

¹Paul an Apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Iesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him fro the dead,

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

³Grace bee to you and peace, from God the Father, and from our Lord Iesus Christ,

⁴Who gaue himselfe for our sinnes, that he might deliuer vs from this present euill world, according to the will of God, and our Father,

⁵To whom bee glorie for euer and euer, Amen.

There Is No Other Gospel

⁶I marueile, that you are so soone remoued from him, that called you into the grace of Christ, vnto an other Gospel:

⁷Which is not another; but there bee some that trouble you, and would peruert the Gospel of Christ.

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

⁹As we said before, so say I now againe, If any man preach any other Gospel vnto you, then that yee haue receiued, let him be accursed.

¹⁰For doe I now perswade men, or God? or doe I seeke to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I should not bee the seruant of Christ.

The Gospel Received by Revelation, Not from Man

¹¹But I certifie you, brethren, that the Gospel which was preached of me, is not after man.

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

¹³For yee haue heard of my couuersation in time past, in the Iewes Religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the Church of God, and wasted it:

¹⁴And profited in the Iewes Religion, aboue many my equals in mine owne nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

¹⁵But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mothers wombe, and called me by his grace,

¹⁶To reueale his sonne in mee, that I might preach him among the heathen, immediatly I conferred not with flesh and blood:

¹⁷Neither went I vp to Ierusalem, to them which were Apostles before me, but I went into Arabia, and returned againe vnto Damascus.

Paul's Activity Apart from the Jerusalem Church

¹⁸Then after three yeeres, I went vp to Ierusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteene dayes.

¹⁹But other of the Apostles saw I none, saue Iames the Lords brother.

²⁰Now the things which I write vnto you, behold, before God I lye not.

²¹Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia,

²²And was vnknowen by face vnto the Churches of Iudea, which were in Christ.

²³But they had heard onely, that he which persecuted vs in times past, now preacheth the faith, which once hee destroyed.

²⁴And they glorified God in 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 saith the Lord God; Because thine heart is lifted vp, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seate of God in the middest of the seas; yet thou art a man and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God.

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

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

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

⁶Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;

⁷Behold therefore, I will bring strangers vpon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beautie of thy wisedome, & they shall defile thy brightnesse.

⁸They shall bring thee downe to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them, that are slaine in the middest of the seas.

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

¹⁰Thou shalt die the deaths of the vncircumcised, by the hand of strangers: for I haue spoken it, saith 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 saith the Lord God; Thou sealest vp the summe, full of wisedome and perfect in beautie.

¹³Thou hast beene in Eden the garden of God; euery precious stone was thy couering, the Sardius, Topaze, and the Diamond, the Beril, the Onyx, and the Iasper, the Saphir, the Emeraude, and the Carbuncle and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee, in the day that thou wast created.

¹⁴Thou art the annointed Cherub that couereth: and I haue set thee so; thou wast vpon the holy mountaine of God; thou hast walked vp and downe in the middest of the stones of fire.

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

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

¹⁷Thine heart was lifted vp because of thy beautie, thou hast corrupted thy wisedome by reason of thy brightnesse: I will cast thee to the ground: I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

¹⁸Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquitie of thy traffique: therefore will I bring forth a fire from the middest of thee, it shall deuoure thee: and I will bring thee to ashes vpon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

¹⁹All they that know thee among the people, shall be 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 word of the Lord came vnto me, saying;

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

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

²³For I will send into her, pestilence, and blood into her streetes, and the wounded shall be iudged in the middest of her by the sword vpon her on euery side, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

²⁴And there shall be no more a pricking briar vnto the house of Israel, nor any grieuing thorne of all that are round about them that despised them, and they shal know that I am the Lord God.

²⁵Thus saith the Lord God; When I shall haue gathered the house of Israel fro the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land, that I haue giuen to my seruant Iacob.

²⁶And they shal dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards: yea, they shall dwell with confidence when I haue executed iudgments vpon all those that despise them round about them, and they shal know that I am the Lord their God.

A Night Meditation Remembering Ancient Wonders

¹[To the chiefe musician, to Ieduthun, a Psalme of Asaph.] I cryed vnto God with my voice: euen vnto God with my voice, and he gaue eare vnto me.

²In the day of my trouble, I sought the Lord; my sore ranne in the night, and ceased not: my soule refused to be comforted.

³I remembred God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was ouerwhelmed. Selah.

⁴Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speake.

⁵I haue considered the dayes of old, the yeeres of auncient times.

⁶I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine owne heart, and my spirit made diligent search.

⁷Will the Lord cast off for euer? and will hee be fauourable no more?

⁸Is his mercy cleane gone for euer? doth his promise faile for euermore?

⁹Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut vp his tender mercies? Selah.

¹⁰And I sayd, This is my infirmitie: but I will remember the yeeres of the right hand of the most high.

¹¹I will remember the workes of the Lord: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.

¹²I will meditate also of all thy worke, and talke of thy doings.

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

¹⁴Thou art the God that doest wonders; thou hast declared thy strength among the people.

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

¹⁶The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee: they were afraid; the depths also were troubled.

¹⁷The cloudes powred out water, the skies sent out a sound; thine arrowes also went abroad.

¹⁸The voice of thy thunder was in the heauen: the lightnings lightned the world, the earth trembled and shooke.

¹⁹Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters: and thy foot-steps are not knowen.

²⁰Thou leddest thy people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.