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Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
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This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
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And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
Direct biblical phrasing of mystery as revealed plan
How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
Direct statement that the mystery was made known by revelation
And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:
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And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
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Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
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Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
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That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
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And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
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It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
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These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
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Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
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Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people.
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And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
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But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
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And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
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They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
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There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.
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And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
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Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
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Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
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And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
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That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
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Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
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Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
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And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.
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Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
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Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
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They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
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And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
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The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.
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For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
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And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
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We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
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