麥克謙一年通讀

Bear One Another's Burdens and Do Good

¹Brethren, if a man be suddenly taken in any offence, ye which are spirituall, restore such one with the spirit of meekenes, considering thy selfe, least thou also be tempted.

²Beare ye one anothers burden, and so fulfill the Lawe of Christ.

³For if any man seeme to himselfe, that he is somewhat, when he is nothing, hee deceiueth himselfe in his imagination.

⁴But let euery man prooue his owne worke: and then shall he haue reioycing in himselfe onely and not in another.

⁵For euery man shall beare his owne burden.

⁶Let him that is taught in the worde, make him that hath taught him, partaker of all his goods.

⁷Be not deceiued: God is not mocked: for whatsoeuer a man soweth, that shall hee also reape.

⁸For hee that soweth to his flesh, shall of the flesh reape corruption: but hee that soweth to the spirit, shall of the spirit reape life euerlasting.

⁹Let vs not therefore be weary of well doing: for in due season we shall reape, if we faint not.

¹⁰While we haue therefore time, let vs doe good vnto all men, but specially vnto them, which are of the housholde of faith.

Boasting Only in the Cross of Christ

¹¹Ye see how large a letter I haue written vnto you with mine owne hand.

¹²As many as desire to make a faire shewe in the flesh, they constraine you to be circumcised, onely because they would not suffer persecution for the crosse of Christ.

¹³For they themselues which are circumcised keepe not the law, but desire to haue you circumcised, that they might reioyce in your flesh.

¹⁴But God forbid that I should reioyce, but in ye crosse of our Lord Iesus Christ, whereby the world is crucified vnto me, and I vnto ye world.

¹⁵For in Christ Iesus neither circumcision auaileth any thing, nor vncircumcision, but a newe creature.

¹⁶And as many as walke according to this rule, peace shalbe vpon them, and mercie, and vpon the Israel of God.

¹⁷From henceforth let no man put me to busines: for I beare in my body the markes of the Lord Iesus.

¹⁸Brethren, the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with your spirit, Amen. ‘Vnto the Galatians written from Rome.’

The Duty and Calling of the Watchman

¹Again, the woorde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

²Sonne of man, speake to the children of thy people, and say vnto them, When I bring the sworde vpon a lande, if the people of the lande take a man from among them, and make him their watchman,

³If when hee seeth the sworde come vpon ye land, he blow the trumpet, and warne the people,

⁴Then hee that heareth the sounde of the trumpet, and will not bee warned, if the sworde come, and take him away, his blood shall be vpon his owne head.

⁵For he heard the sound of the trumpet, and woulde not bee admonished: therefore his blood shall be vpon him: but he that receiueth warning, shall saue his life.

⁶But if the watchman see the sworde come, and blowe not the trumpet, and the people be not warned: if the sworde come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away for his iniquitie, but his blood will I require at the watchmans hande.

⁷So thou, O sonne of man, I haue made thee a watchman vnto the house of Israel: therefore thou shalt heare the woorde at my mouth, and admonish them from me.

⁸When I shall say vnto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt die the death, if thou doest not speake, and admonish the wicked of his way, that wicked man shall die for his iniquitie, but his blood will I require at thine hand.

⁹Neuerthelesse, If thou warne the wicked of his way, to turne from it, if he doe not turne from his way, he shall die for his iniquitie, but thou hast deliuered thy soule.

The Justice That Judges Each According to His Ways

¹⁰Therefore, O thou sonne of man, speake vnto the house of Israel, Thus yee speake and say, If our transgressions and our sinnes bee vpon vs, and we are consumed because of them, howe should we then liue?

¹¹Say vnto them, As I liue, sayeth the Lord God, I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turne from his way and liue: turne you, turne you from your euill waies, for why will ye die, O ye house of Israel?

¹²Therefore thou sonne of man, saye vnto the children of thy people, The righteousnesse of the righteous shall not deliuer him in the day of his transgression, nor the wickednesse of the wicked shall cause him to fall therein, in the day that he returneth from his wickednesse, neither shall the righteous liue for his righteousnesse in the day that he sinneth.

¹³When I shall say vnto the righteous, that he shall surely liue, if he trust to his owne righteousnes, and commit iniquitie, all his righteousnes shall be no more remembred, but for his iniquitie that he hath committed, he shall die for the same.

¹⁴Againe when I shall say vnto the wicked, thou shalt die the death, if he turne from his sinne, and doe that which is lawfull and right,

¹⁵To wit, if the wicked restore the pledge, and giue againe that he had robbed, and walke in the statutes of life, without committing iniquitie, he shall surely liue, and not die.

¹⁶None of his sinnes that he hath comitted, shall be mentioned vnto him: because he hath done that, which is lawful, and right, he shall surely liue.

¹⁷Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equall: but their owne way is vnequall.

¹⁸When the righteous turneth from his righteousnesse, and committeth iniquitie, he shall euen die thereby.

¹⁹But if the wicked returne from his wickednesse, and doe that which is lawfull and right, hee shall liue thereby.

²⁰Yet yee say, The way of the Lord is not equall. O ye house of Israel, I will iudge you euery one after his waies.

News of Jerusalem's Fall and the People's Hypocrisy

²¹Also in the twelfth yere of our captiuitie, in the tenth moneth, and in the fift day of the moneth, one that had escaped out of Ierusalem, came vnto me, and said, The citie is smitten.

²²Now the hand of the Lord had bene vpon me in ye euening afore hee that had escaped, came, and had opened my mouth vntill he came to me in the morning: and when hee had opened my mouth, I was no more dumme.

²³Againe the worde of the Lord came vnto me, and saide,

²⁴Sonne of man, these that dwel in the desolate places of the land of Israel, talke and say, Abraham was but one, and hee possessed the lande: but we are many, therefore the lande shall be giuen vs in possession.

²⁵Wherefore say vnto them, Thus saieth the Lord God, Ye eate with the blood, and lift vp your eyes towarde your idoles, and sheade blood: should ye then possesse the land?

²⁶Ye leane vpon your swordes: ye worke abomination, and yee defile euery one his neighbours wife: should ye then possesse the land?

²⁷Say thus vnto them, Thus saieth the Lord God, As I liue, so surely they that are in the desolate places, shall fall by the sword: and him that is in the open field, will I giue vnto the beasts to be deuoured: and they that be in the forts and in the caues, shall die of the pestilence.

²⁸For I will lay the land desolate and waste, and the pompe of her strength shall cease: and the moutaines of Israel shalbe desolate, and none shall passe through.

²⁹Then shall they know that I am the Lord, when I haue laid ye land desolate and wast, because of al their abominations, that they haue committed.

³⁰Also thou sonne of man, the children of thy people that talke of thee by the wals and in the dores of houses, and speake one to another, euery one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and heare what is the word that commeth from the Lord.

³¹For they come vnto thee, as the people vseth to come: and my people sit before thee, and heare thy wordes, but they will not doe them: for with their mouthes they make iestes, and their heart goeth after their couetousnesse.

³²And loe, thou art vnto them, as a iesting song of one that hath a pleasant voyce, and can sing well: for they heare thy woordes, but they doe them not.

³³And when this commeth to passe (for loe, it will come) then shall they know, that a Prophet hath bene among them.

A Voice Urging Obedience at the Feast

¹To him that excelleth upon Gittith. A Psalme committed to Asaph. Sing ioyfully vnto God our strength: sing loude vnto the God of Iaakob.

²Take the song and bring forth the timbrel, the pleasant harpe with the viole.

³Blowe the trumpet in the newe moone, euen in the time appointed, at our feast day.

⁴For this is a statute for Israel, and a Law of the God of Iaakob.

⁵Hee set this in Ioseph for a testimonie, when hee came out of the land of Egypt, where I heard a language, that I vnderstoode not.

⁶I haue withdrawen his shoulder from the burden, and his handes haue left the pots.

⁷Thou calledst in affliction and I deliuered thee, and answered thee in the secret of the thunder: I prooued thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

⁸Heare, O my people, and I wil protest vnto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken vnto me,

⁹Let there bee no strange god in thee, neither worship thou any strange god.

¹⁰For I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide and I will fill it.

¹¹But my people would not heare my voyce, and Israel would none of me.

¹²So I gaue them vp vnto the hardnesse of their heart, and they haue walked in their owne cousels.

¹³Oh that my people had hearkened vnto me, and Israel had walked in my wayes.

¹⁴I would soone haue humbled their enemies, and turned mine hand against their aduersaries.

¹⁵The haters of the Lord should haue bene subiect vnto him, and their time should haue endured for euer.

¹⁶And God would haue fedde them with the fatte of wheat, and with honie out of the rocke would I haue sufficed thee.

A Rebuke Against Unjust Judges

¹A Psalme committed to Aspah. God standeth in the assemblie of gods: hee iudgeth among gods.

²How long wil ye iudge vniustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

³Doe right to the poore and fatherlesse: doe iustice to the poore and needie.

⁴Deliuer the poore and needie: saue them from the hand of the wicked.

⁵They knowe not and vnderstand nothing: they walke in darkenes, albeit all the foundations of the earth be mooued.

⁶I haue said, Ye are gods, and ye all are children of the most High.

⁷But ye shall die as a man, and yee princes, shall fall like others.

⁸O God, arise, therefore iudge thou the earth: for thou shalt inherite all nations.