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In the same way Christ did not take for himself the glory of being made a high priest, but was given it by him who said, You are my Son, this day I have given you being:
That this man is to be handed over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may have forgiveness in the day of the Lord Jesus.
And Simon, answering, said, Master, we were working all night and we took nothing: but at your word I will let down the nets.
The sons of pride have no place before you; you are a hater of all workers of evil.
And this will be our peace: when the Assyrian comes into our country and his feet are in our land, then we will put up against him seven keepers of the flocks and eight chiefs among men.
Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?
For we through the Spirit by faith are waiting for the hope of righteousness.
Now she who is truly a widow and without family puts her hope in God, giving herself to prayer day and night.
You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.
And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;
And at these words, Ananias went down on the earth, and his life went from him: and great fear came on all who were present.
One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
Do not be looking for help to Beth-el, and do not go to Gilgal, or make your way to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal will certainly be taken prisoner, and Beth-el will come to nothing.
In that very hour the fingers of a man's hand were seen, writing opposite the support for the light on the white wall of the king's house, and the king saw the part of the hand which was writing.
And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; and Ephraim will have a fall through his sins, and the fall of Judah will be the same as theirs.
I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.
And all the years of Adam's life were nine hundred and thirty: and he came to his end.
But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.
So the king of Aram said, Go then; and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. And he went, taking with him ten talents of silver and six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing.
But the eye of their God was on the chiefs of the Jews, and they did not make them give up working till the question had been put before Darius and an answer had come by letter about it.
And whoever is responsible for any such sin, let him make a statement openly of his wrongdoing;
Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.
The mountains were shaking before the Lord, before the Lord, the God of Israel.
(I was between the Lord and you at that time, to make clear to you the word of the Lord: because, through fear of the fire, you did not go up the mountain;) saying,
And so it is my purpose to make a house for the name of the Lord my God, as he said to David my father, Your son, whom I will make king in your place, will be the builder of a house for my name.
Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
I got up to let my loved one in; and my hands were dropping with myrrh, and my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the lock of the door.
And all the time, by day and by night, in the place of the dead, and in the mountains, he was crying out and cutting himself with stones.
This is what the Lord has said: This is Jerusalem: I have put her among the nations, and countries are round her on every side;
Ruling over Judah in Hebron for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem, over all Israel and Judah, for thirty-three years.
And the angel who was talking to me went out and said to me, Let your eyes be lifted up now, and see the ephah which is going out.
It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.
Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;
So to this day no priest of Dagon, or any who come into Dagon's house, will put his foot on the doorstep of the house of Dagon in Ashdod.
All the people who came out had undergone circumcision; but all the people whose birth had taken place in the waste land on their journey from Egypt had not.
And Pharaoh said, Truly, the people of the land are increasing in number, and you are keeping them back from their work.
They took up the ark and the Tent of meeting and all the holy vessels which were in the Tent; all these the priests, the Levites, took up.
Then the king said, Let Haman come quickly, so that what Esther has said may be done. So the king and Haman came to the feast which Esther had made ready.
And the Lord said to Moses,
Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,