When Abram heard that his nephew had been taken prisoner, he gathered together 318 of his trained men, who had been born in his household, and they went out in pursuit as far as Dan.

Then the high priest Ananias ordered the men standing near him to strike him on the mouth.

The Jewish leaders replied to him, "Surely we're right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon, aren't we?"

There will no longer be any curse. The throne of God and the lamb will be in the city. His servants will worship him

But Jesus answered him, "Let it be this way for now, because this is the proper way for us to fulfill all righteousness."

for I could wish that I myself were condemned and cut off from the Messiah for the sake of my brothers, my own people,

Then many people will fall away, will betray one another, and will hate one another.

A wise son heeds a father's correction, but a mocker does not listen to rebuke.

Then the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his own teaching.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, "Look, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Absolved from every act of sin, is wisdom by her kith and kin."

Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which ties everything together in unity.

So Saul turned around from pursuing David and went to meet the Philistines. Therefore, they call that place the Rock of Escape.

LORD, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! You set your glory above the heavens!

He's the one who gives might to the faint, renewing strength for the powerless.

Their sacrifice for a peace offering consisted of two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five one year old lambs. These were the offerings presented by Zuar's son Nathaniel.

"Tell Aaron and his sons that this is the regulation concerning sin offerings: Slaughter the sin offering in the same place where the whole burnt offering is slaughtered in the LORD's presence. It's a most holy thing.

The LORD will distinguish between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of the Egyptians, so that nothing that belongs to the Israelis will die."'"

From: Paul, an apostle of the Messiah Jesus, by the command of God our Savior and the Messiah Jesus, our hope.

Pray to the LORD! There has been enough of God's thunder and hail! I'll let you go, and you need not stay any longer."

I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem, to lay siege against it. The city will be captured, the houses will be ransacked, the women raped, and half of the city will go into exile, but the remaining people will not be cut off from the city.

But evil people and impostors will go from bad to worse as they deceive others and are themselves deceived.

So if you have cases dealing with this life, why do you appoint as judges people who have no standing in the church?

But Jesus was in the back of the boat, asleep on a cushion. So they woke him up and asked him, "Teacher, don't you care that we're going to die?"

God, who knows everyone's heart, showed them he approved by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us.

Jesus said, ""You must not murder, you must not commit adultery, you must not steal, you must not give false testimony, honor your father and mother,' and, "you must love your neighbor as yourself.'"

Until I arrive, give your full concentration to the public reading of Scripture, to exhorting, and to teaching.

So Paul lived there for a year and a half and continued to teach the word of God among the people there.

Sometime after Joshua had died, the Israelis asked the LORD, "Who is to lead us against the Canaanites in our opening attack against them?"

When they came to him, he told them, "You know how I lived among you the entire time from the first day I set foot in Asia.

I found a register of the original inhabitants in which there was recorded a list of descendants of the province of Judah who returned from captivity, from those who had been exiled by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. They had come back to Jerusalem and to Judah, each one to his town.

They had hair like women's hair and teeth like lions' teeth.

The angel told me, "These are four heavenly spirits that are going out on patrol after having presented themselves to the Lord of the whole earth.

Therefore the ones who speak in proverbs say: Come to Heshbon and let it be built! Let the city of Sihon be established!

As long as you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light." After Jesus had said this, he went away and hid from them.

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Before they call, I will answer, while they are still speaking, I'll hear.

Yes, I also ask you, my true partner, to help these women. They have worked hard with me to advance the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

with respect to Mahli, Eleazar, who had no sons;

So the high priests and the scribes were looking for a way to put him to death, because they were afraid of the crowd.

anoint Nimshi's son Jehu as king over Israel, and anoint Shaphat's son Elisha from Abel-meholah as a prophet to replace you.

For his wrath is only momentary; yet his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may lodge for the night, but shouts of joy will come in the morning.

Although he had performed numerous signs in their presence, they did not believe in him,

Pay everyone whatever you owe them taxes to whom taxes are due, tolls to whom tolls are due, fear to whom fear is due, honor to whom honor is due.

But they replied, "What do we care? Attend to that yourself." Then he flung the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, went outside, ran away, and hanged himself.

After doing everything required by the Law of the Lord, Joseph and Mary returned to their hometown of Nazareth in Galilee.

"Starting the day after the Sabbath, count for yourselves seven weeks from the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering. They are to be complete.

For when God made his promise to Abraham, he swore an oath by himself, since he had no one greater to swear by.

"You know that the Passover will take place in two days, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified."

Their sacrifice for a peace offering consisted of two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five one year old lambs. These were the offerings presented by Helon's son Eliab.

Who can produce a clean thing from an unclean thing? No one!

"Every single Israeli is to encamp beneath his standard with the emblem of his ancestral house. The Israelis are to encamp in front of and surrounding the Tent of Meeting."

Then Menahem died, as did his ancestors, and his son Pekahiah reigned in his place.

and I noticed among the naive that is, I discerned among the youths a senseless young man.

He replied, "I am ""a voice crying out in the wilderness, "Prepare the Lord's highway,"' as the prophet Isaiah said."

Elijah left there and located Shaphat's son Elisha, who was plowing, along with a total of twelve pairs of oxen. (He was plowing with the twelfth pair.) As Elijah passed by, he tossed his cloak at Elisha.

Learn to practice what is good; seek justice, alleviate oppression, defend orphans in court, and plead the widow's case.

Then he called to the crowd again and told them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand!

then fill me with joy by having the same attitude, sharing the same love, being united in spirit, and keeping one purpose in mind.

Absolutely not, I tell you! But if you don't repent, then you, too, will all die."

This message from the LORD arrived for me:

They have hated those who are presenting their cases in court, detesting the one who speaks truthfully.

On the second day the king again told Esther as they drank wine, "What's your petition, Queen Esther? It will be given to you. What's your request? Up to half of the kingdom, and it will be done."

"Why wasn't this perfume sold for 300 denarii and the money given to the destitute?"

Then Moses left Pharaoh's presence and prayed to the LORD.

"I'll scatter you among the nations and draw the sword after you so that your land becomes desolate and your towns become ruins.

Some time later, divine beings again presented themselves to the LORD, and Satan accompanied them to present himself to the LORD.

Then the LORD told Satan, "Very well then, everything he owns is under your control, only you may not extend your hand against him." So Satan left the LORD's presence.

When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she crouched down under Balaam. As a result, Balaam got so angry that he started to whip the donkey with his staff.

I will certainly bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in heaven and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the gates of their enemies.

When you call out to me and come and pray to me, I'll hear you.

Now David, after he had served God's purpose in his own generation, died and was buried with his ancestors, and so he experienced decay.

Speak! "This is what the LORD says: "The corpses of people will fall like dung on the surface of the field, and like a row of cut grain behind the harvester when there is no one to gather it."'"

A man might father a hundred children, and live for many years, so that the length of his life is long but if his life does not overflow with goodness, and he doesn't receive a proper burial, I maintain that stillborn children are better off than he is,

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.

Jesus told her, "Mary!" She turned around and told him in Hebrew, "Rabbouni!" (which means "Teacher").

I am giving you these commandments so that you may love one another."

It is better to take shelter in the LORD than to trust in people.

You snakes, you children of serpents! How can you escape being condemned to hell?

Furthermore, let the gold and silver utensils from the Temple of God (that Nebuchadnezzar took from the Temple in Jerusalem and carried off to Babylon) be brought back to the Temple at Jerusalem and restored to their respective places in the Temple of God.

Many nations will approach and say, "Come, let's go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the Temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us about his ways, and we will walk according to his directions.' "Indeed, the Law will proceed from Zion, and the message of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Our pursuers were swifter than soaring eagles; they pursued us over the mountains, lying in wait for us in the wilderness.

Now Izhar's son Korah, the grandson of Kohath, a descendant of Levi, along with Eliab's sons Dathan and Abiram, and Peleth's son On, a descendant of Reuben, took charge

The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are. I'll see the blood and pass over you. There will be no plague to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

The guilt offering is to be offered in the same place where the burnt offering is slaughtered. The priest is to sprinkle some of its blood on the altar and around it.

Now it happened in those days, before there was a king in Israel, that a certain male descendant of Levi, who lived in a remote part of the mountainous region of Ephraim, took a mistress for himself from Bethlehem in the territory of Judah.

The city doesn't need any sun or moon to give it light, because the glory of God gave it light, and the lamb was its lamp.

"That is why the kingdom from heaven may be compared to a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.

David left from there and escaped to the Cave of Adullam. His brothers and all his father's family heard about this and went down to him there.

Let the assembly of the nations gather around you, and you will sit high above them.

For none of us lives for himself, and no one dies for himself.

Then a messenger came to Saul with this news: "Come quickly, because the Philistines have made a raid on the land!"

He said, "Go to this people and say, "You will listen and listen but never understand, and you will look and look but never see!

The priest who offers it as a sin offering is to eat it at a sacred place in the court of the Tent of Meeting.

There was very heavy hail, and lightning was flashing continuously in the midst of the hail. There had not been anything like it in the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.

Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the high priests to betray Jesus to them.

Some of them began to spit on him. They blindfolded him and kept hitting him with their fists and telling him, "Prophesy!" Even the servants took him and slapped him around.

Cush fathered Nimrod, who became the first fearless leader throughout the land.

They worshipped the dragon because it had given authority to the beast. They also worshipped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast, and who can fight a war with it?"

Instead, go to the lost sheep of the nation of Israel.

"You will tell them all these things, but they won't listen to you. You will call out to them, but they won't answer you.

Otherwise, they will rip me to shreds like a lion, tearing me apart with no one to rescue me.

For wherever jealousy and rivalry exist, there is disorder and every kind of evil.

You are doing your father's actions." They told him, "We're not illegitimate children. We have one Father, God himself."

Because it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and then into the sewer, thereby expelling all foods."

If our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts and knows everything.

"For as the new heavens and the new earth that I am about to make will endure before me," says the LORD, "so will your descendants and your name endure.

"You are to consult neither mediums nor familiar spirits. You are never to seek them you'll just be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.

Indeed, I and my people have been sold to be annihilated, killed, and destroyed. If we had just been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because the trouble wouldn't have been sufficient to bother the king."

When the Council heard this, they became furious and wanted to kill them.

When he occupies his royal throne, he must make a copy of this Law for himself from a scroll used by the Levitical priests.

Meanwhile, at that time the nobles of Judah continued to send many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah kept sending letters to them.

So the LORD relented from this. "This will not happen, either," said the Lord GOD.

But some believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, "The gentiles must be circumcised and ordered to keep the Law of Moses."

"If a man steals an ox or sheep and slaughters it or sells it, he is to repay five oxen for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.

When Peter was about to enter, Cornelius met him, bowed down at his feet, and began to worship him.

The crown has fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned!

whether Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life, death, the present, or the future everything belongs to you,

But he told them, "The kings of the unbelievers lord it over them, and those who exercise authority over them are called benefactors.

Shouldn't this woman, a descendant of Abraham whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free from this bondage on the Sabbath day?"

The LORD told Moses, "Listen! I've positioned you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.

When their time of feasting had concluded, Job would rise early in the morning to send for them and consecrate them to God. He would offer a burnt offering for each one, because Job thought, "Perhaps my children sinned by cursing God in their hearts." Job did this time and again.

They woke up early the next morning and made the treaty. After this, Isaac sent them off and they left on peaceful terms.

For the authorities are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you like to live without being afraid of the authorities? Then do what is right, and you will receive their approval.

the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

The earthen vessel in which it was boiled is to be broken, unless it was boiled in a bronze vessel, in which case it is to be polished very well and rinsed in water.

and give you to those who are trying to kill you, whom you fear that is, to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and the Chaldeans.

When you hear of wars and revolutions, never be alarmed, because these sort of things must take place first, but the end won't come right away."

Then Peter began to say to him, "See, we have left everything and followed you."

But later on, at the lodging place along the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him.

So they were convinced by him. After calling in the apostles and beating them, they again ordered them to stop speaking in the name of Jesus and let them go.

"When you have come to the land that the LORD your God is about to give you, and you have taken possession of it, and have settled in it, then you will say, "I will appoint a king over me like all the nations around me.'

So Simon Peter went aboard and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish 153 of them. And although there were so many of them, the net was not torn.

For man did not come from woman, but woman from man;

Although they know God's just requirement that those who practice such things deserve to die they not only do these things but even applaud others who practice them.

Because Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into his control, that he had come from God, and that he was returning to God,

He answered them, "The person who has two coats must share with the one who doesn't have any, and the person who has food must do the same."

Two days later, Jesus left for Galilee from there,

I tell all of you with certainty, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to the Messiah will never lose his reward."

Immediately the man could see again and began to follow Jesus, glorifying God. All the people saw this and gave praise to God.

Then they turned around and left, sending their little ones, their livestock, and their valuables on ahead.

A little while later, King Ben-hadad of Aram mustered an army of cavalry and chariots in a military confederacy with 32 kings, invaded Samaria, and set up siege encampments there.

But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, shouting,

Your eyes are too pure to gaze upon evil; and you cannot tolerate wickedness. So why do you tolerate the treacherous? And why do you stay silent while the wicked devour those who are more righteous than they are?

Brothers, let me use an example from everyday life. Once an agreement has been ratified, no one can cancel it or add conditions to it.

Who will harm you if you are devoted to doing what is good?

Sometime later, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. In fact, his illness became so severe that he died.

Moses told all of this to Aaron, to his sons, and to all the Israelis.

Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain: "This is what you are to say to the house of Jacob and declare to the sons of Israel,

Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the one to come."

A declaration: a message from the LORD to Israel. "The LORD, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who frames the spirit of man within himself, declares,

In a large house there are not only utensils made of gold and silver, but also those made of wood and clay. Some are for special use, while others are for ordinary use.

"I have told you this while I am still with you.

In appearance, the four wheels looked like they consisted of a wheel within a wheel.

nor did he doubt God's promise out of a lack of faith. Instead, his faith became stronger and he gave glory to God,

"The kingdom from heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.

"Your majesty, while you were watching, you observed an enormous statue. This magnificent statue stood before you with extraordinary brilliance. Its appearance was terrifying.

The contingent of soldiers who lapped water with their hands to their mouths numbered 300 men, but everyone else kneeled to drink water.

For this is what the LORD GOD, the Holy One of Israel, says: "In repentance and rest you will be saved; in staying calm and trusting will be your strength. But you refused.

"Don't muzzle an ox while it is threshing grain."

For he says to Moses, "I will be merciful to the person I want to be merciful to, and I will be kind to the person I want to be kind to."

The one who belongs to God listens to the words of God. The reason you don't listen is because you don't belong to God."

How much more severe a punishment do you think that person deserves who tramples on God's Son, treats as common the blood of the covenant by which it was sanctified, and insults the Spirit of grace?

of sin, because they don't believe in me;

"Toward the end of their rule, as the desecrations proceed, an insolent king will arise, proficient at deception.

Then the Spirit brought me to the entrance of the court. As I watched, all of a sudden, there was a hole in the wall!

These are the family records of Shem. When Shem had lived 100 years, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

The LORD helps and delivers them; he will deliver them from the wicked, and he will save them because they have sought refuge in him. A Davidic Psalm: As a Reminder.

When the sun was setting, everyone who had any friends suffering from various diseases brought them to him. He placed his hands on each of them and began healing them.

because my husband isn't home. He left on a long trip.

But "if your enemy is hungry, feed him. For if he is thirsty, give him a drink. If you do this, you will pile burning coals on his head."

Go up to the festival yourselves. I am not going to this festival yet, because my time hasn't fully come yet."

It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you in regard to the things that have now been announced to you by those who brought you the good news through the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. These are things that even the angels desire to look into.

Then Moses told the LORD, "Please, LORD, I'm not eloquent. I never was in the past nor am I now since you spoke to your servant. In fact, I talk too slowly and I have a speech impediment."

in it was written:

The soldiers also made fun of Jesus by coming up and offering him sour wine,

Then the Spirit told me, "Son of Man, don't you see what they're doing? The house of Israel practices awful, detestable things here, so I'm going far away from my sanctuary. But you're about to see things even more detestable than these."

Isn't wisdom calling out; isn't understanding raising her voice?

So the men were sent on their way and arrived in Antioch. They gathered the congregation together and delivered the letter.

But if you do what is wrong, you should be afraid, for it is not without reason that they bear the sword. Indeed, they are God's servants to administer punishment to anyone who does wrong. Therefore, it is necessary for you to be acquiescent to the authorities, not only for the sake of God's punishment, but also for the sake of your own conscience.

as the days on which the Jewish people enjoyed relief from their enemies. It was a month when things turned around for them, from sorrow to joy and from mourning to a holiday. They were to celebrate these days as days of feasting and joy, and they were to send presents to one another and gifts to the poor.

Esther replied, "An adversary and an enemy it's this wicked Haman!" So Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.

Caleb silenced the people on Moses' behalf and responded, "Let's go up and take control, because we can definitely conquer it."

They all burn like an oven; they have consumed their judges; all their kings have fallen not even one of them calls on me.

Now since we have the same spirit of faith in keeping with this Scripture: "I believed, and so I spoke," we also believe and therefore speak.

I'll turn my face away from them so that they'll defile my treasured place. Robbers will enter and profane it!

A brother of humble means should rejoice in his having been exalted,

The only thing they asked us to do was to remember the destitute, the very thing I was eager to do.

This is how it will be at the resurrection of the dead. What is planted is decaying, what is raised cannot decay.

However, the LORD will have compassion on Jacob and will once again choose Israel. He will settle them in their own land, and foreigners will join them, affiliating themselves with the house of Jacob.

Fear the LORD your God, serve him, and make your oaths in his name.

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

that I will not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that belongs to you, so you won't be able to say, "I made Abram rich.'

I therefore declare to you today that I'm not responsible for the blood of any of you,

Though now, for a moment, grace has been shown from the LORD our God, leaving a few survivors to escape, and providing us a secure hold in his Holy Place, so that our God might enlighten us and give us relief from our servitude.

because whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.

Open my eyes so that I will observe amazing things from your instruction.

But this kind does not come out except by prayer and fasting."

That night the Lord stood near Paul and said, "Have courage! For just as you have testified about me in Jerusalem, you must testify in Rome, too."

So the apostles and the elders met to look into this claim.

Shepherd of Israel, listen! The one who leads Joseph like a flock, the one enthroned on the cherubim, display your glory.

Then King Ahasuerus asked Queen Esther, "Who is this, and where is the person who would dare do this?"

When he heard the crowd going by, he asked what was happening.

"It will come about that all of the survivors of the nations who came against Jerusalem will come there from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, and to observe the Festival of Tents.

The Spirit of the LORD speaks within me; his word is on my tongue!

When Jesus had washed their feet and put on his outer robe, he sat down again and told them, "Do you realize what I've done to you?

No one who denies the Son has the Father. The person who acknowledges the Son also has the Father.

Therefore, I always do my best to have a clear conscience before God and people.

Say to the king and the queen mother, "Come take a lowly seat, because your beautiful crowns have fallen off your heads."

Trust in the LORD and do good. Dwell in the land and feed on faithfulness.

They went through the Negev and reached Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak lived. (Hebron had been constructed seven years before Zoan in Egypt had been built).

If you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Even the tax collectors do the same, don't they?

Also, I will certainly demand an accounting regarding bloodshed, from every animal and from every human being. I'll demand an accounting from every human being for the life of another human being.

came in to Moses and Aaron, and delivered their report to the entire congregation of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back their report to the entire congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.

If he knocks out the tooth of his male or female servant, he is to release him as a free man in exchange for his tooth.

Then he withdrew from them about a stone's throw, knelt down, and began to pray,

Even Herod and his soldiers treated him with contempt and made fun of him. He put a magnificent robe on Jesus and sent him back to Pilate.

For I want you to know how much I struggle for you, for those in Laodicea, and for all who have never seen me face to face.

After saying this, he showed them his hands and his side, and when they saw the Lord, the disciples were overjoyed.

I will surely restore my people Israel; they will rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them. They will plant vineyards and drink the wine from them. They will plant gardens and eat the fruit from them.

All the people were so stunned that they kept saying to each other, "What is this? A new teaching with authority! He tells even the unclean spirits what to do, and they obey him!"

I charged them, "Do not open the gates of Jerusalem until mid-day. Until then, let everyone stand watch, keeping the gates shut and locked. Appoint security watches from those who live in Jerusalem. Everyone should maintain his own watch near his house."

The crowd joined in the attack against them. Then the magistrates had Paul and Silas stripped of their clothes and ordered them beaten with rods.

Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, "He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"

His behavior in pursuing idolatry was detestable, just like the Amorites had done whom the LORD had expelled in front of the army of Israel.

Some are preaching the Messiah because of jealousy and dissension, while others do so because of their good will.

nor do you have his word at work in you, because you do not believe in the one whom he sent.

in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, noted in the Scripture the total years that were assigned by the message from the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem: 70 years.

to him be glory in the church and in the Messiah Jesus to all generations, forever and ever! Amen.

and then he is to eviscerate it and throw the viscera and the feathers to the east side of the altar, where the fatty ashes are located.

Furthermore, their love, their hate, and their envy have been long lost. Never again will they have a part in what happens on earth.

The priest is to offer both the whole burnt and the grain offerings on the altar. After the priest makes atonement for him, he will be clean."

"Pursue good and not evil, so that you may live, and this is what will happen: The LORD God of the Heavenly Armies will be with you, as you have been claiming.

When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church, the apostles, and the elders, and they reported everything that God had done through them.

"You are to take for yourself the finest spices: 500 shekelsby weight of liquid myrrh, half as much fragrant cinnamon (250 shekels), 250 shekels of fragrant reeds,

so that no one may buy or sell unless he has the mark, which is the beast's name or the number of its name.

Very well, then, through the mouths of foreigners and foreign languages the LORD will speak to this people

"Return, Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have fallen due to your own iniquity.

This happened in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the gentiles through the Messiah Jesus, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.

The Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha! You worry and fuss about a lot of things.

Look! The wages that you kept back from the workers who harvested your fields are shouting out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of the Heavenly Armies.

Because everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be salted with salt.

Above his head they placed the charge against him. It read, "This is Jesus, the king of the Jews."

Then David invited Uriah, "Stay here today, and tomorrow I'll send you back." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem all that day and the next.

Meanwhile, what David had done grieved the LORD, so the LORD sent Nathan to David.

Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the imperial headquarters and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him.

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all he undertakes.

and to wait for his Son whom he raised from the dead to come back from heaven. This Jesus is the one who rescues us from the coming wrath.

This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "I'll punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, when he set himself against Israel in the way, as they were going up from Egypt.

That man John was a lamp that burns and brightly shines, and for a while you were willing to rejoice in his light.

I constantly thank my God whom I serve with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did when I remember you in my prayers night and day,

Although they found no reason to sentence him to death, they asked Pilate to have him executed.

After the Festival of Unleavened Bread, we sailed from Philippi, and days later we joined them in Troas and stayed there for seven days.

So Abraham took sheep and oxen and presented them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.

It never occurs to them that I remember all their sin. Now their actions have caught up with them, and they have my attention.

Shortly after Saul had died, David returned from defeating the Amalekites and remained in Ziklag for two days.

Therefore, since we have such a hope, we speak very boldly,

I planted, Apollos watered, but God kept everything growing.

From Zattu's descendants: Jahaziel's son Shecaniah and 300 men with him.

"You are not to cut your hair in ritualistic patterns on your head or deface the edges of your beard.

Don't become a stumbling block to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,

Then, when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the victor's crown of glory that will never fade away.

We sailed from there and on the following day arrived off Chios. The next day, we crossed over to Samos and stayed at Trogyllium. The day after that, we came to Miletus.

So he said:

then, let my enemy pursue me, let him overtake me, and let him trample my life to the ground. Interlude Let him put my honor into the dust.

When Barnabas and Saul had fulfilled their mission, they returned from Jerusalem, bringing with them John who was also called Mark.

how much less confidence does he have in those who dwell in houses of clay; who were formed from a foundation in dust and can perish like a moth?

so that we may not be outsmarted by Satan. After all, we are not unaware of his intentions.

Then he asked them, "If your son or ox falls into a well on the Sabbath day, you would pull him out immediately, wouldn't you?"

As the boys were growing up, Esau became skilled at hunting and was a man of the outdoors, but Jacob was the quiet type who tended to stay indoors.

But now I am writing to you to stop associating with any so-called brother if he is sexually immoral, greedy, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunk, or a robber. You must even stop eating with someone like that.

But you, dear friends, must continue to build your most holy faith for your own benefit. Furthermore, continue to pray in the Holy Spirit.

He has shown mercy to our ancestors and remembered his holy covenant,

Stop your transgressing the deeds by which you've rebelled and then make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, you house of Israel?

Fathers, do not make your children resentful. Otherwise, they'll become discouraged.

Attached to the third chariot were white horses. Attached to the fourth chariot were speckled horses and gray horses.

When Cain became very upset and depressed, the LORD asked Cain, "Why are you so upset? Why are you depressed?

No one understands. No one searches for God.

Then he summoned two centurions and ordered, "Get 200 soldiers ready to leave for Caesarea at nine o'clock tonight, along with 70 mounted soldiers and 200 soldiers with spears.

They have known for a long time, if they would but testify to it, that I lived as a Pharisee, adhering to the standards of our strictest religious party.

How blessed are those servants whom the master finds watching for him when he comes! I tell all of you with certainty, he himself will put on an apron, make them sit down at the table, and go around and serve them.

So Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. He got up early in the morning and built an altar with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel at the base of the mountain.

Think about the one who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you may not become tired and give up.

"After 40 years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.

Don't be led astray by her lifestyle, and don't imitate her behavior.

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, because he considers all people to be alive to him."

In Iconium, Paul and Barnabas went into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed.

The one who doesn't take up his cross and follow me isn't worthy of me.

Of course, we know that the Law is good if a person uses it legitimately,

"I've been very zealous for the LORD God of the Heavenly Armies," he replied. "The Israelis have abandoned your covenant, demolished your altars, executed your prophets with swords, and I that's right, just me! am the only one left. Now they're seeking my life, to get rid of me!"

Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on his side, woke him up, and said, "Get up quickly!" His chains fell from his wrists.

Taking Peter and the two sons of Zebedee with him, he began to be grieved and troubled.

This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,

The person who sows through human means will harvest decay from human means, but the person who sows in the Spirit will harvest eternal life from the Spirit.

"Look, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I'll punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh:

When the dragon saw that it had been thrown down to the earth, it pursued the woman who had given birth to the boy.

So when they persecute you in one town, flee to the next, because I tell all of you with certainty that you will not have gone through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

The angel of the LORD surrounds those who fear him, and he delivers them.

Indeed, rebellion is the sin of divination, and arrogance is iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected this message from the LORD, he has rejected you from being king."

Know that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving to you this good land to inherit, for you are a stubborn people."

but you don't believe, because you don't belong to my sheep.

So their descendants entered and took possession of the land. Before their eyes you subdued those living in the land the Canaanites putting them under their control, along with their kings and the nations of the land, so they could do with them as they pleased.

Any winged, swarming insect is unclean to you. They must not be eaten.

The king said, "Who is in the courtyard?" Now Haman had just entered the outer courtyard of the palace to speak to the king about having Mordecai hanged on the pole he had set up.

But if the LORD creates something new, so that the ground opens its mouth and swallows them and everything that belongs to them and they all descend directly to Sheol while still alive, then you'll know that these men have spurned the LORD."

It was nine in the morning when they crucified him.

Some time later, the angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim and announced to Israel, "I brought you up from Egypt and led you into the land that I promised to your ancestors. I had told them, "I'll never breach my covenant with you.

Declare his glory among the nations, and his miraculous deeds to all people,

But the person who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding, encouragement, and comfort.

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, and our homes to foreigners.

"Am I a God who is near," declares the LORD, "rather than a God who is far away?

They brought their offering into the LORD's presence, consisting of six covered carts and twelve oxen one cart each from two leaders and an ox from each one. After they presented them in front of the tent,

"Abraham said, "They have Moses and the Prophets. They should listen to them!'

Still others were saying "We've borrowed money against our fields and vineyards to pay the king's taxes.

Also, make it your goal to live quietly, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you,

"The fourth animal will be a fourth kingdom on the earth, different from all the kingdoms. It will devour the entire earth, trampling it down and crushing it. Now as to the ten horns, ten kings will rise to power from this kingdom, and another king will rise to power after them. He will be different from the previous kings, and will defeat three kings.

Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn out her seven pillars.

The leaders told them, "Let them live." So they became wood cutters and water carriers for the entire congregation, which is what the leaders had decided concerning them.

"Then he said, "The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will, to see the Righteous One, and to hear his own voice,

"Therefore, keep my statutes and ordinances. You are not to do any of these detestable things this applies to the native born and the resident alien who lives among you

But know today that the LORD your God is going ahead of you as a consuming fire. He will destroy and subdue them before you. He will dispossess and destroy them quickly, just as the LORD told you.

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.

Guard and protect them until you disperse them to the chief priests, the descendants of Levi, and to the family leaders of Israel at Jerusalem in the chambers of the Temple of the LORD."

If anyone is to be taken captive, into captivity he will go. If anyone is to be killed with a sword, with a sword he will be killed. Here is a call for endurance and faith of the saints:

He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God.

So it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

Amaziah's son Azariah began reigning during the twenty-seventh year of the reign of Jeroboam, king of Israel.

As the time for the evening offering arrived, Elijah the prophet approached and said, "LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I, your servant, have done all of this in obedience to your word.

They are demonic spirits that perform signs. They go to the kings of the whole earth and gather them for the war of the great Day of God Almighty.

A garden was located in the place where he was crucified, and in that garden was a new tomb in which no one had yet been placed.

Then what had been declared through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled when he said, "They took the 30 pieces of silver, the value of the man on whom a price had been set by the Israelis,

Who are you to criticize someone else's servant? He stands or falls before his own Lord and stand he will, because the Lord makes him stand.

We have an altar, and those who serve in the tent have no right to eat at it.

Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree, which he threw into the water, and the water became sweet.

The LORD asked Satan, "Where have you come from?" In response, Satan answered the LORD, "From wandering all over the earth and walking back and forth throughout it."

For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters. Rather, what matters is being a new creation.

as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, "He is a voice calling out in the wilderness: "Prepare the way for the Lord! Make his paths straight!

Right at that time, Jeroboam's son Abijah became ill,

There was one man from Zorah, from the family of the descendants of Dan, whose name was Manoah. Since his wife was infertile, she hadn't borne children.

No, a person is a Jew inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, brought about by the Spirit, not by a written law. That person's praise will come from God, not from people.

At that time, with his fierce, mighty, and powerful sword, the LORD will punish the gliding serpent Leviathan the coiling serpent Leviathan and he will kill the dragon that's in the sea.

So the Israelis practiced what the LORD considered to be evil by worshiping Canaanite deities.

After Shaul died, Achbor's son Baal-hanan ruled in his place.

But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet and who teaches and leads my servants to practice immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

"The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I'll deal with them according to their behavior and I will judge them by how they've judged. Then they'll learn that I am the LORD."

So why shouldn't I be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 human beings who do not know their right hand from their left, as well as a lot of livestock?

The whole valley of dead bodies and ashes and all the fields as far as the Brook Kidron to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east will be holy to the LORD. It won't be uprooted or overthrown again, forever."

"A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some seeds fell along the path, were trampled on, and birds from the sky ate them up.

While he was holding on to Peter and John, all the people came running to them in what was called "Solomon's Colonnade". They were dumbfounded.

"Tell the community to move away from where Korah, Dathan, and Abiram are living."

He said, "The one who showed mercy to him." Jesus told him, "Go and do what he did."

Bless those who curse you, and pray for those who insult you.

For many are the victims whom she has conquered, and many are her slain.

They had breastplates like iron, and the noise of their wings was like the roar of chariots with many horses rushing into battle.

Do not be like Cain, who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because what he was doing was evil and his brother's actions were righteous.

Sometime later, Absalom acquired a chariot equipped with horses and recruited 50 men to accompany him.