l prove a kind of spiritual biography, outlining his career.
Some texts, known to have been very conspicuous in their influence, we
put in capitals. The italics are his own.
"GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY-BEGOTTEN SON, THAT
WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING
LIFE." (John iii. 16.)
"Cursed be the man that trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm."
(Jeremiah xvii. 5.)
"O, fear the Lord, ye His saints; for there is no want to them that fear
Him." (Psa. xxxiv. 9.)
"Owe no man anything, but to love one another." (Rom. xiii. 8.)
"SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS; AND ALL THESE
THINGS SHALL BE ADDED UNTO YOU." (Matt. vi. 33.)
"The holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation."
(2 Tim. iii. 15.)
"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it
shall be opened unto you: for every one that asketh receiveth; and he
that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened."
(Matt. vii. 7, 8.)
"WHATSOEVER YE SHALL ASK IN MY NAME, THAT WILL I DO, THAT THE FATHER MAY
BE GLORIFIED IN THE SON: IF YE SHALL ASK ANYTHING IN MY NAME I WILL DO
IT." (John xiv. 13, 14.)
"Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall
eat, and what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body what ye shall put
on.... Take, therefore, no thought for the morrow." (Matt. vi. 25-34.)
"If any man will do His will, he shall know of the doctrine." (John vii.
17.)
"If ye continue in My word, then are ye My disciples indeed; and ye
shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (John viii.
31, 32.)
"And the eunuch said, See, here is water: what doth hinder me to be
baptized? And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou
mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son
of Gad. And they went down both into the water, both Philip and the
eunuch, and he baptized him." (Acts viii, 36-38.)
"Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were
baptized into His death? Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism
into death." (Rom. vi. 3, 4.)
"Upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to
break bread." (Acts xx. 7.)
"My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of
glory, with respect of persons. For if there come unto your assembly a
man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a
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