Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. {comfort: or, exhort}

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words. {comfort: or, exhort}

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew {me}.

That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation {is} high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.

He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, {Is there} not a lie in my right hand?

As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father {doth} his children,

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some {is}; but exhorting {one another}: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. {comfort: or, exhort}

Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:

(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now {is} the accepted time; behold, now {is} the day of salvation.)

That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

Because I knew that thou {art} obstinate, and thy neck {is} an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; {obstinate: Heb. hard}

And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.

But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: {in pride: or, to deal proudly} {deposed: Chaldee, made to come down}

Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things {which belong} unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. {they said...: Heb. a man said to his neighbour} {burn...: Heb. burn them to a burning}

For he {is} our God; and we {are} the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,

And he hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.

But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, {and} as {in} the day of temptation in the wilderness: {provocation: Heb. contention}

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew {me}.

But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men {to} edification, and exhortation, and comfort.

But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.

Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about {them} walls, and towers, gates, and bars, {while} the land {is} yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought {him}, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed? {wonderfully: or, reproachfully} {the people: Heb. them}

And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.

Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard {it}, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.