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Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the LORD
under Eli. The word of the LORD was rare in
those days; visions were not widespread.
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At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to
grow dim so that he could not see, was lying
down in his room;
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the lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel
was lying down in the temple of the LORD, where
the ark of God was.
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Then the LORD called, "Samuel!
Samuel!" and he said, "Here I
am!"
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and ran to Eli, and said, "Here I am, for
you called me." But he said, "I did
not call; lie down again." So he went and
lay down.
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The LORD called again, "Samuel!"
Samuel got up and went to Eli, and said,
"Here I am, for you called me." But he
said, "I did not call, my son; lie down
again."
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Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, and the
word of the LORD had not yet been revealed to
him.
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The LORD called Samuel again, a third time. And
he got up and went to Eli, and said, "Here
I am, for you called me." Then Eli
perceived that the LORD was calling the boy.
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Therefore Eli said to Samuel, "Go, lie
down; and if he calls you, you shall say,
'Speak, LORD, for your servant is
listening.'" So Samuel went and lay down in
his place.
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Now the LORD came and stood there, calling as
before, "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel
said, "Speak, for your servant is
listening."
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Then the LORD said to Samuel, "See, I am
about to do something in Israel that will make
both ears of anyone who hears of it tingle.
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On that day I will fulfill against Eli all that
I have spoken concerning his house, from
beginning to end.
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For I have told him that I am about to punish
his house forever, for the iniquity that he
knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and
he did not restrain them.
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Therefore I swear to the house of Eli that the
iniquity of Eli's house shall not be expiated by
sacrifice or offering forever."
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Samuel lay there until morning; then he opened
the doors of the house of the LORD. Samuel was
afraid to tell the vision to Eli.
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But Eli called Samuel and said, "Samuel, my
son." He said, "Here I am."
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Eli said, "What was it that he told you? Do
not hide it from me. May God do so to you and
more also, if you hide anything from me of all
that he told you."
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So Samuel told him everything and hid nothing
from him. Then he said, "It is the LORD;
let him do what seems good to him."
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As Samuel grew up, the LORD was with him and let
none of his words fall to the ground.
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And all Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba knew that
Samuel was a trustworthy prophet of the LORD.
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139:1
O LORD, you have searched me and known me.
139:2
You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you
discern my thoughts from far away.
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You search out my path and my lying down, and
are acquainted with all my ways.
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Even before a word is on my tongue, O LORD, you
know it completely.
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You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your
hand upon me.
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Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so
high that I cannot attain it.
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For it was you who formed my inward parts; you
knit me together in my mother's womb.
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I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully
made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very
well.
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My frame was not hidden from you, when I was
being made in secret, intricately woven in the
depths of the earth.
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Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In your
book were written all the days that were formed
for me, when none of them as yet existed.
139:17
How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God! How
vast is the sum of them!
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6:12
"All things are lawful for me," but
not all things are beneficial. "All things
are lawful for me," but I will not be
dominated by anything.
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"Food is meant for the stomach and the
stomach for food," and God will destroy
both one and the other. The body is meant not
for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord
for the body.
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And God raised the Lord and will also raise us
by his power.
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Do you not know that your bodies are members of
Christ? Should I therefore take the members of
Christ and make them members of a prostitute?
Never!
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Do you not know that whoever is united to a
prostitute becomes one body with her? For it is
said, "The two shall be one flesh."
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But anyone united to the Lord becomes one spirit
with him.
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Shun fornication! Every sin that a person
commits is outside the body; but the fornicator
sins against the body itself.
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Or do you not know that your body is a temple of
the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from
God, and that you are not your own?
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For you were bought with a price; therefore
glorify God in your body.
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1:43
The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He
found Philip and said to him, "Follow
me."
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Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of
Andrew and Peter.
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Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We
have found him about whom Moses in the law and
also the prophets wrote, Jesus son of Joseph
from Nazareth."
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Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good
come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him,
"Come and see."
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When Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, he
said of him, "Here is truly an Israelite in
whom there is no deceit!"
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Nathanael asked him, "Where did you get to
know me?" Jesus answered, "I saw you
under the fig tree before Philip called
you."
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Nathanael replied, "Rabbi, you are the Son
of God! You are the King of Israel!"
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Jesus answered, "Do you believe because I
told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You
will see greater things than these."
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And he said to him, "Very truly, I tell
you, you will see heaven opened and the angels
of God ascending and descending upon the Son of
Man."
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