for their rock is not as our Rock.

And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever.

Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.

HOWBEIT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING FOR DOCTRINES THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN.

Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats,

Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye. If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. For ye heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned unto Damascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother. Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not. Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia; And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ: But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. And they glorified God in me.

But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.

Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus:

the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,

a scarlet coloured beast

having a golden cup in her hand

seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.

And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore

because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces;

if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.