Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

And you {hath he quickened}, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. {he: or, it}

They {are} not in trouble {as other} men; neither are they plagued like {other} men. {in...: Heb. in the trouble of other men} {like: Heb. with}

And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

That chant to the sound of the viol, {and} invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David; {chant: or, quaver}

For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, {and} be merry.

Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) {by...: or, by whose grace}

And thus shall ye say to him that liveth {in prosperity}, Peace {be} both to thee, and peace {be} to thine house, and peace {be} unto all that thou hast.

But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.

Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: {there is} no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

{So that} the man {that is} tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:

The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.

They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate {woman}. {comely: or, dwelling at home}

He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become {his} son at the length.

And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:

And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. {thou shalt surely...: Heb. dying thou shalt die}

Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

He that loveth pleasure {shall be} a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich. {pleasure: or, sport}

And you {hath he quickened}, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

And thus shall ye say to him that liveth {in prosperity}, Peace {be} both to thee, and peace {be} to thine house, and peace {be} unto all that thou hast.

These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds {they are} without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, {and} be merry.

Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.

But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.