Colossians 1:11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, to all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness; I heard of a city missionary who was going along one of the streets and saw a little girl sleeping on the steps of a door, and he awoke her, and said, "Why are you sleeping here in this drizzling rain?" And she said, "My father has turned me out of doors. He's a drunkard, and I'm waiting till he falls asleep, and then I'm going into the house." The next morning the drunken father awakened from his dream of iniquity, and he saw his little girl preparing his breakfast, and he said, "Milly, why do you stay with me?" "Oh," she said, "father, I love you; and my mother, when she died, said I must never leave you. She said the rum fiend would sometimes go out of you, and then you would be very kind to me; and so she said I was never to leave you, and, father, I never will." Parallel Verses KJV: Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness; |
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