| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
CO1 4:13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the
world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
CO1 4:14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons
I warn you.
CO1 4:15 For though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet
have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you
through the gospel.
CO1 4:16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
CO1 4:17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my
beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: bonds:
COL 4:4 That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
COL 4:5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the
time.
COL 4:6 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that
ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
COL 4:7 All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved
brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord:
COL 4:8 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might
know your estate, and comfort your hearts;
COL 4:9 With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: ACT 25:1 Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days
he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.
ACT 25:2 Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him
against Paul, and besought him,
ACT 25:3 And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to
Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
ACT 25:4 But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and
that he himself would depart shortly thither.
ACT 25:5 Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down
with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him.
ACT 25:6 And when he had tarried among them more than ten days, he went
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