It is the spirit that quickeneth.

HE first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.--That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.--Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.

If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God.--Reckon ye . . . yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

JOHN 6. 63. 1 Co. 15. 45.--John 3. 6.--Tit. 3. 5. Ro. 8. 9-11. Ga. 2. 20.--Ro. 6. 11.

neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. If ye know thesethings, happy are ye if ye do them.The servant is not greater than his lord;

HERE was . . . a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.--Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

Jesus . . . riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself. After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.

JOHN 13. 16, 17. Lu. 22. 24-27.--Mat. 20. 28. John 13. 3-5.

The LORD thy God accept thee.

HEREWITH shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.--There is none righteous, no, not one. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare . . . at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

Accepted in the beloved.--Ye are complete in him.

2 SAM. 24. 23. Mic. 6. 6-8. Is. 64. 6.--Ro. 3. 10, 23-26. Ep. 1. 6.--Col. 2. 10.

fellowship of the Spirit. Consolation in Christ...comfort of love

AN that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.--My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

The Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever.--The Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name.--Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. And so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

PHIL. 2. 1. Job 14. 1, 2.--Ps. 73. 26. John 14. 16, 26.--2 Co. 1. 3, 4. 1 Th. 4. 14, 17, 18.

I delight in the law of God after the inward man

HOW love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.--Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart.--I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.--I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.--My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.--Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass.

ROM. 7. 22. Ps. 119. 97.--Je. 15. 16.--Ca. 2. 3. Job 23. 12. Ps. 40. 8.--John 4. 34. Ps. 19. 8, 10.--Ja. 1. 22, 23.

Amen.

MEN: the LORD God . . . say so too.--He who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth [Heb. The Amen]; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth [The Amen].

When God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself.--For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.

These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness.--For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. And blessed be his glorious name for ever. Amen, and Amen.

MAT. 6. 13. 1 Ki. 1. 36.--Is. 65. 16. He. 6. 13, 16-18. Re. 3. 14.--2 Co. 1. 20. Ps. 72. 18, 19.

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.

THE LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.

The LORD is...great in power.--If God be for us, who can be against us?--Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us.--My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.--Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory.--Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.

MAT. 6. 13. Ps. 93. 1, 2. Na. 1. 3.--Ro. 8. 31.--Da. 3. 17.--John 10. 29.--1 John 4. 4. Ps. 115. 1.--1 Ch. 29. 11, 13, 14.