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In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
For he who makes holy and those who are made holy are all of one family; and for this reason it is no shame for him to give them the name of brothers,
He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not come under the power of the second death.
This is a true saying: If we undergo death with him, then will we be living with him:
For one man is not different from another before God.
And a number of nations will be joined to the Lord in that day, and will become my people; and I will be living among you, and you will see that the Lord of armies has sent me to you.
For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are looked on as being outside the circumcision by those who have circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;
This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee and let his glory be seen openly; and his disciples put their faith in him.
And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:
If a man came with a false spirit of deceit, saying, I will be a prophet to you of wine and strong drink: he would be the sort of prophet for this people.
Give worship to the Lord with fear, kissing his feet and giving him honour,
Has any nation ever made a change in their gods, though they are no gods? but my people have given up their glory in exchange for what is of no profit.
Judah has been acting falsely, and a disgusting thing has been done in Jerusalem; for Judah has made unclean the holy place of the Lord which is dear to him, and has taken as his wife the daughter of a strange god.
Even as you saw how, like a father with his children, we were teaching and comforting you all, and giving witness,
The Lord will let himself be seen by them: for he will make all the gods of the earth feeble; and men will go down before him in worship, everyone from his place, even all the sea-lands of the nations.
And while they went on their way, going on talking together, suddenly there were carriages and horses of fire separating them from one another and Elijah went up to heaven in a great wind.
For who has knowledge of the things of a man but the spirit of the man which is in him? in the same way, no one has knowledge of the things of God but the Spirit of God.
Let a woman quietly take the place of a learner and be under authority.
But when Cephas came to Antioch, I made a protest against him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong.
But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.
My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.
And the Lord is thundering before his forces; for very great is his army; for he is strong who gives effect to his word: for the day of the Lord is great and greatly to be feared, and who has strength against it?
And Job's three friends had word of all this evil which had come on him. And they came every one from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. So they came together to a meeting-place, in order that they might go and make clear to Job their grief for him, and give him comfort.
Men of Crete and Arabia, to all of us they are talking in our different languages, of the great works of God.
And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord and became servants to the Baals;
And because of this news, our hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in any of us because of you; for the Lord your God is God in heaven on high and here on earth.
Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
And I will put an end to all her joy, her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her regular meetings.
And Boaz answering said to her, I have had news of everything you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband; how you went away from your father and mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people who are strange to you.
For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.
And some of your sons I made prophets, and some of your young men I made separate for myself. Is it not even so, O children of Israel? says the Lord.
Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;
The king's request is a very hard one, and there is no other who is able to make it clear to the king, but the gods, whose living-place is not with flesh.
No meal offering which you give to the Lord is to be made with leaven; no leaven or honey is to be burned as an offering made by fire to the Lord.
For he who said, Do not be untrue in married life, is the same who said, Put no man to death. Now if you are not untrue in married life, but you put a man to death, the law is broken.
Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?
Now when Moses had become a man, one day he went out to his people and saw how hard their work was; and he saw an Egyptian giving blows to a Hebrew, one of his people.
For, see, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
Though the angels, who are greater in strength and power, do not make use of violent language against them before the Lord.
Then Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child became the servant of the Lord under the direction of Eli the priest.
Then Huram, king of Tyre, sent Solomon an answer in writing, saying, Because of his love for his people the Lord has made you king over them.
The name of the first is Pishon, which goes round about all the land of Havilah where there is gold.
And the time when David was king in Hebron over the people of Judah was seven years and six months.
David was king over Israel for forty years: for seven years he was king in Hebron and for thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
These are the words of the Lord of armies: Put now a point of law to the priests, saying,
I say to you, Get up, take up your bed, and go to your house.
And Nahshon was the father of Salma, and Salma was the father of Boaz,
They are numbered among the Rephaim, like the Anakim; but are named Emim by the Moabites.
The children of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-three.
So I came to Jerusalem and was there three days.
And every day Mordecai took his walk before the square of the women's house, to see how Esther was and what would be done to her.
The number of his army was forty-six thousand, five hundred.