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Before judgment examine thyself, and in the day of visitation thou shalt find mercy.

Humble thyself before thou be sick, and in the time of sins shew repentance.

Before thou prayest, prepare thyself; and be not as one that tempteth the Lord.

From the morning until the evening the time is changed, and all things are soon done before the Lord.

Admonish thy neighbour before thou threaten him; and not being angry, give place to the law of the most High.

Casting down his countenance, and making as if he heard not: where he is not known, he will do thee a mischief before thou be aware.

As the vapour and smoke of a furnace goeth before the fire; so reviling before blood.

As the vapour and smoke of a furnace goeth before the fire; so reviling before blood.

Who shall set a watch before my mouth, and a seal of wisdom upon my lips, that I fall not suddenly by them, and that my tongue destroy me not?

Lest mine ignorances increase, and my sins abound to my destruction, and I fall before mine adversaries, and mine enemy rejoice over me, whose hope is far from thy mercy.

Remember thy father and thy mother, when thou sittest among great men. Be not forgetful before them, and so thou by thy custom become a fool, and wish that thou hadst not been born, and curse the day of thy nativity.

In the congregation of the most High shall she open her mouth, and triumph before his power.

He created me from the beginning before the world, and I shall never fail.

In the holy tabernacle I served before him; and so was I established in Sion.

In three things I was beautified, and stood up beautiful both before God and men: the unity of brethren, the love of neighbours, a man and a wife that agree together.

Praise no man before thou hearest him speak; for this is the trial of men.

They that rejoice at the fall of the righteous shall be taken in the snare; and anguish shall consume them before they die.

Beware thou slide not by it, lest thou fall before him that lieth in wait.

He that teacheth his son grieveth the enemy: and before his friends he shall rejoice of him.

Envy and wrath shorten the life, and carefulness bringeth age before the time.

Eat as it becometh a man, those things which are set before thee; and devour not, lest thou be hated.

Before the thunder goeth lightning; and before a shamefaced man shall go favour.

Before the thunder goeth lightning; and before a shamefaced man shall go favour.

Whoso bringeth an offering of the goods of the poor doeth as one that killeth the son before his father’s eyes.

Thou shalt not appear empty before the Lord.

The offering of the righteous maketh the altar fat, and the sweet savour thereof is before the most High.

As thou wast sanctified in us before them: so be thou magnified among them before us.

As thou wast sanctified in us before them: so be thou magnified among them before us.

Beware of a counsellor, and know before what need he hath; for he will counsel for himself; lest he cast the lot upon thee,

Let reason go before every enterprize, and counsel before every action.

Let reason go before every enterprize, and counsel before every action.

He that sinneth before his Maker, let him fall into the hand of the physician.

He fashioneth the clay with his arm, and boweth down his strength before his feet; he applieth himself to lead it over; and he is diligent to make clean the furnace:

He shall serve among great men, and appear before princes: he will travel through strange countries; for he hath tried the good and the evil among men.

He will give his heart to resort early to the Lord that made him, and will pray before the most High, and will open his mouth in prayer, and make supplication for his sins.

The works of all flesh are before him, and nothing can be hid from his eyes.

He seeth from everlasting to everlasting; and there is nothing wonderful before him.

The weed growing upon every water and bank of a river shall be pulled up before all grass.

Fear not the sentence of death, remember them that have been before thee, and that come after; for this is the sentence of the Lord over all flesh.

Be ashamed of whoredom before father and mother: and of a lie before a prince and a mighty man;

Be ashamed of whoredom before father and mother: and of a lie before a prince and a mighty man;

Of an offence before a judge and ruler; of iniquity before a congregation and people; of unjust dealing before thy partner and friend;

Of an offence before a judge and ruler; of iniquity before a congregation and people; of unjust dealing before thy partner and friend;

Of an offence before a judge and ruler; of iniquity before a congregation and people; of unjust dealing before thy partner and friend;

And of silence before them that salute thee; and to look upon an harlot;

Or to be overbusy with his maid, and come not near her bed; or of upbraiding speeches before friends; and after thou hast given, upbraid not;

So shalt thou be truly shamefaced and find favour before all men.

Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter, lest she make thee a laughingstock to thine enemies, and a byword in the city, and a reproach among the people, and make thee ashamed before the multitude.

He made him to hear his voice, and brought him into the dark cloud, and gave him commandments before his face, even the law of life and knowledge, that he might teach Jacob his covenants, and Israel his judgments.

Before him there were none such, neither did ever any stranger put them on, but only his children and his children’s children perpetually.

Who before him so stood to it? for the Lord himself brought his enemies unto him.

And before his long sleep he made protestations in the sight of the Lord and his anointed, I have not taken any man’s goods, so much as a shoe: and no man did accuse him.

He set singers also before the altar, that by their voices they might make sweet melody, and daily sing praises in their songs.

Who wast ordained for reproofs in their times, to pacify the wrath of the Lord’s judgment, before it brake forth into fury, and to turn the heart of the father unto the son, and to restore the tribes of Jacob.

So were all the sons of Aaron in their glory, and the oblations of the Lord in their hands, before all the congregation of Israel.

Then shouted the sons of Aaron, and sounded the silver trumpets, and made a great noise to be heard, for a remembrance before the most High.

And the people besought the Lord, the most High, by prayer before him that is merciful, till the solemnity of the Lord was ended, and they had finished his service.

I prayed for her before the temple, and will seek her out even to the end.

Whereupon they wept, fasted, and prayed before the Lord.

For we have sinned before the Lord,

Yet have we not prayed before the Lord, that we might turn every one from the imaginations of his wicked heart.

Yet we have not hearkened unto his voice, to walk in the commandments of the Lord, that he hath set before us.

Therefore we do not make our humble supplication before thee, O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our kings.

As thou spakest by thy servant Moses in the day when thou didst command him to write the law before the children of Israel, saying,

And return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord.

Hear, O Lord, and have mercy; as thou art merciful: and have pity upon us, because we have sinned before thee.

O Lord Almighty, thou God of Israel, hear now the prayers of the dead Israelites, and of their children, which have sinned before thee, and not hearkened unto the voice of thee their God: for the which cause these plagues cleave unto us.

And for this cause thou hast put thy fear in our hearts, to the intent that we should call upon thy name, and praise thee in our captivity: for we have called to mind all the iniquity of our forefathers, that sinned before thee.

Because of the sins which ye have committed before God, ye shall be led away captives into Babylon by Nabuchodonosor king of the Babylonians.

Beware therefore that ye in no wise be like to strangers, neither be ye afraid of them, when ye see the multitude before them and behind them, worshipping them.

They also that serve them are ashamed: for if they fall to the ground at any time, they cannot rise up again of themselves: neither, if one set them upright, can they move of themselves: neither, if they be bowed down, can they make themselves straight: but they set gifts before them as unto dead men.

For how can they be called gods? because women set meat before the gods of silver, gold, and wood.

They roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast when one is dead.

Neither is there at this time prince, or prophet, or leader, or burnt offering, or sacrifice, or oblation, or incense, or place to sacrifice before thee, and to find mercy.

And it fell out, as they watched a fit time, she went in as before with two maids only, and she was desirous to wash herself in the garden: for it was hot.

And said before the people, Send for Susanna, the daughter of Chelcias, Joacim’s wife. And so they sent.

Then Susanna cried out with a loud voice, and said, O everlasting God, that knowest the secrets, and knowest all things before they be:

So when they were gone forth, the king set meats before Bel. Now Daniel had commanded his servants to bring ashes, and those they strewed throughout all the temple in the presence of the king alone: then went they out, and shut the door, and sealed it with the king’s signet, and so departed.

And he drew him out, and cast those that were the cause of his destruction into the den: and they were devoured in a moment before his face.

And went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of many nations, insomuch that the earth was quiet before him; whereupon he was exalted and his heart was lifted up.

Now when the kingdom was established before Antiochus, he thought to reign over Egypt that he might have the dominion of two realms.

And the table of the shewbread, and the pouring vessels, and the vials, and the censers of gold, and the veil, and the crown, and the golden ornaments that were before the temple, all which he pulled off.

Caleb for bearing witness before the congregation received the heritage of the land.

Wherefore the Lord himself will overthrow them before our face: and as for you, be ye not afraid of them.

Now as soon as he had left off speaking, he leapt suddenly upon them, and so Seron and his host was overthrown before him.

He feared that he should not be able to bear the charges any longer, nor to have such gifts to give so liberally as he did before: for he had abounded above the kings that were before him.

He feared that he should not be able to bear the charges any longer, nor to have such gifts to give so liberally as he did before: for he had abounded above the kings that were before him.

Now therefore let us cry unto heaven, if peradventure the Lord will have mercy upon us, and remember the covenant of our fathers, and destroy this host before our face this day:

And said to the people, Be not greedy of the spoil inasmuch as there is a battle before us,

So they joined battle; and there were slain of the host of Lysias about five thousand men, even before them were they slain.

At that time also they builded up the mount Sion with high walls and strong towers round about, lest the Gentiles should come and tread it down as they had done before.

Now when the nations round about heard that the altar was built and the sanctuary renewed as before, it displeased them very much.

So he fought many battles with them, till at length they were discomfited before him; and he smote them.

So he went first over unto them, and all the people after him: then all the heathen, being discomfited before him, cast away their weapons, and fled unto the temple that was at Carnaim.

But they took the city, and burned the temple with all that were therein. Thus was Carnaim subdued, neither could they stand any longer before Judas.

After this went they over Jordan into the great plain before Bethsan.

Now what time as Judas and Jonathan were in the land of Galaad, and Simon his brother in Galilee before Ptolemais,

Also that they had pulled down the abomination, which he had set up upon the altar in Jerusalem, and that they had compassed about the sanctuary with high walls, as before, and his city Bethsura.

And covenant with them, that they shall live after their laws, as they did before: for they are therefore displeased, and have done all these things, because we abolished their laws.

Then the priests entered in, and stood before the altar and the temple, weeping, and saying,