Someone whose conduct is upright fears the LORD, but whoever is devious in his ways despises him.

Then Jesus, deeply moved with compassion, touched their eyes, and at once they could see again. So they followed him.

In conclusion, I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt, and give glory to the King of heaven: For everything he does is true, his ways are just, and he is able to humble those who walk in pride."

"I've sinned," Saul said. "But please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me so I may worship the LORD your God."

Suddenly, they screamed, "What do you want with us, Son of God? Did you come here to torture us before the proper time?"

"If two men are fighting together, and the wife of one comes to rescue her husband from the grasp of his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes his genitals,

A servant girl saw him sitting by the fire, stared at him, and said, "This man was with him, too."

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the pride of children is their parents.

Nations, listen to this message from the LORD, and declare it in the distant coastlands. Say, "The one who scattered Israel will gather him and keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock."

Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for battle and my fingers for warfare,

He springs up like a flower and then withers. Like a shadow, he disappears and doesn't last.

But when what is complete comes, then what is incomplete will be done away with.

And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It's better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

Remain in this land, and I'll be with and bless you by giving all these lands to you and to your descendants in fulfillment of my solemn promise that I made to your father Abraham.

"Look up and see those who are coming from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you your beautiful sheep?

Give thanks to the LORD, because he is good and because his gracious love is eternal!

This happened because the Israelis had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt and from the domination of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, because they were fearing other gods,

"Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are violent weapons.

Now I urge you, brothers for you know that the members of the family of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to serving the saints

I was asleep, but my heart was awake. There's a sound! My beloved is knocking. "Open up for me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one. For my head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night."

The entire life of the afflicted seems disastrous, but a good heart feasts continuously.

Everyone was numbered from the descendants of Israel, from their ancestral houses, from all the men who were 20 years and above and who could serve in the army.

The governor of the island, whose name was Publius, owned estates in that part of the island. He welcomed us and entertained us with great hospitality for three days.

Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then died.

As for God, his way is upright; the word of God is pure; he is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

It was this Moses who told the Israelis, "God will raise up a prophet for you from among your own brothers, just as he did me.'

"Men have harsh servitude on earth, do they not? His days are like those of a hired laborer, are they not?

You gave him dominion over the work of your hands, you put all things under his feet:

This is what comes to mind, and therefore I have hope:

No one serving in the military gets mixed up in civilian matters, for his aim is to please his commanding officer.

Look at you! You are beautiful, my darling. Look at you! You are so beautiful. Your eyes behind your veil are doves, your hair is like a flock of goats coming down from Mt. Gilead.

You ask, "Where is the noble person's house?' and "Where are the tents where the wicked live?'

The LORD looks down from the heavens upon humanity to see if anyone shows discernment as he searches for God.

The day when the Son of Man is revealed will be like that.

If someone quits listening to the Law even his prayer is detestable.

For Adam was formed first, then Eve,

"Desecrate my Temple," he told them, "and fill its courtyard with the dead!" So they went out and began striking down people throughout the city.

Later that day the book of Moses was read aloud so the people could hear it, and a written command was discovered therein permanently prohibiting the Ammonites and Moabites from coming into the congregation of God

For they loved the praise of human beings more than the praise of God.

As soon as he had seen the vision, we immediately looked for a way to go to Macedonia, because we were convinced that God had called us to tell the people there the good news.

Whoever trusts in himself is foolish, but whoever lives wisely will be kept safe.

Also, the open land of their cities is not to be sold, because it is to remain their perpetual inheritance."

Moses assembled the entire congregation of the Israelis and told them, "These are the things that the LORD has commanded you to do:

They filled in with sand all of the wells that Isaac's father Abraham's servants had dug during his lifetime.

This message came to me from the LORD:

Jesus took him away from the crowd to be alone with him. Putting his fingers into the man's ears, he touched the man's tongue with saliva.

But Elijah said, "Arrest the prophets of Baal. Don't let even one of them get away." So the people seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Wadi Kishon and executed them there.

So they put out this false report to the Israelis about the land that they had explored: "The land that we've explored is one that devours its inhabitants. All the people whom we observed were giants.

You are to eat unleavened bread for seven days. On the first day be sure to remove all the leaven from your houses, because any person who eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh will be cut off from Israel.

"Who is this who keeps darkening my counsel without knowing what he's talking about?

You fools! The one who made the outside made the inside, too, didn't he?

Saul chose for himself 3,000 men from Israel. There were 2,000 with Saul in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, while 1,000 were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. He had sent the rest of the people home.

Come to terms quickly with your opponent while you are on the way to court, or your opponent may hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you will be thrown into prison.

If only they would commit to fear me and keep all my commands, then it will go well with them and their children forever.

Then the LORD told Joshua, "Today I have rolled the disgrace of Egypt away from you." That's why that place is called "Gilgal" to this day.

How much better than gaining gold is the acquisition of wisdom, the attainment of wisdom better than silver!

Who has performed and carried this out, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD the first and will be with the last I am the One!"

and the LORD your God will prosper you abundantly in all that you do, along with your children, your livestock, and the produce of your fields, because the LORD your God will again be delighted with you for good, just as he was delighted with your ancestors,

Some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us. They took us to the home of Mnason to be his guests. He was from Cyprus and had been an early disciple.

For that reason, I endure everything for the sake of those who have been chosen so that they, too, may receive the salvation that is in the Messiah Jesus, along with eternal glory.

Josiah was an eight year old child when he began to reign, and he reigned for 31 years in Jerusalem. His mother was named Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.

My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me searches for you. For when your judgments come upon the earth, the world's inhabitants learn righteousness.

He called ten of his servants and gave them ten coins. He told them, "Invest this money until I come back.'

You are to make its plates, dishes, jars, and bowls from which libations will be poured, and you are to make them of pure gold.

Indeed you, Lord, are kind and forgiving, overflowing with gracious love to everyone who calls on you.

Then the LORD your God will circumcise both your hearts and those of your descendants so that you can love him with your heart and with your soul and therefore live.

At that time King Ahasuerus was ruling from Susa the capital.

The eunuch asked Philip, "I ask you, who is the prophet talking about? Himself? Or someone else?"

Just then, someone told David, "Ahithophel is one of Absalom's conspirators!" So David prayed, "LORD, please turn Ahithophel's counsel into foolishness."

Now the daughters of Hepher's son Zelophehad, Gilead's grandson, who had been fathered by Machir, who had been fathered by Manasseh, from the tribe of Manasseh, the direct son of Joseph, were named Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. They approached

This is what the LORD says, who gives the sun for light by day, the laws that govern the moon and stars for light by night, and who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. The LORD of the Heavenly Armies is his name:

"You are to hold a sacred assembly on the first day of the seventh month of each year. No servile work is to be done. It's a day of blowing trumpets for you.

Asa's son Jehoshaphat succeeded him as king, and he consolidated his authority over Israel

I know what I'll do so that people will welcome me into their homes when I'm dismissed from my job.'

The sin of Judah is engraved with an iron stylus. It is inscribed with a diamond point on the tablet of their heart and on the horns of their altars.

"Then the LORD told me: "Tell them not to go up and fight because I will not be in their midst, or else you will be defeated before your enemies.'

We sailed slowly for a number of days and with difficulty arrived off Cnidus. Then, because the wind was against us, we sailed on the sheltered side of Crete off Cape Salome.

How blessed they will be if their master comes in the middle of the night or near dawn and finds them awake!

The high priests kept accusing him of many things.

Barnabas wanted to take along John, who was called Mark,

casts spells, or who is a medium, an occultist, or a necromancer.

I never stop giving thanks for you as I mention you in my prayers.

A crowd was sitting around him. They told him, "Look! Your mother and your brothers are outside asking for you."

built an altar to the LORD there, and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings. He called out to the LORD, and he answered him from heaven with fire on the altar of burnt offerings.

Then David told the Philistine, "You come at me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of the armies of Israel whom you have defied.

especially those who satisfy their flesh by indulging in its passions and who despise authority.

On the fifth day of the month in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's imprisonment in exile,

"Get to know God, and you'll be at peace with him, and then prosperity will come to you.

The first to put forth his case seems right, until someone else steps forward and cross-examines him.

"And a Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression," says the LORD.

"Who enclosed the sea with limits when it gushed out of the womb,

After this, the king of Assyria invaded the entire land, approached Samaria, and began a three year siege.

I'll place my spirit within you, empowering you to live according to my regulations and to keep my just decrees.

But Jesus rebuked him. "Be quiet," he said, "and come out of him!" At this, the demon threw the man down in the middle of the synagogue and came out of him without hurting him.

Hyenas will howl in its strongholds, and jackals will make their dens in its citadels. Its time is close at hand, and its days will not be extended any further.

Then Eliphaz from Teman responded:

"Remember what the Amalekites did to you along the road while you were coming out of Egypt,

He entered the house and asked them, "Why all this confusion and crying? The child isn't dead. She's sleeping."

This is this message from the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:

The person who falls over this stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush anyone on whom it falls."

Ahab addressed Naboth and asked him, "I would like to plant a vegetable garden near my house. Please exchange your vineyard with a better one from me, or if you'd rather have cash, I'll buy it for its full value."

A house and self-sufficiency are a father's inheritance, but from the LORD comes an insightful wife.

The LORD told Moses,

But then he had another dream, and he proceeded to tell his brothers about that one, too. "I had another dream," he said. "The sun, moon, and eleven of the stars were bowing down before me!"

Simon Peter told him, "Lord, not just my feet, but my hands and my head as well!"

When he finds it, he puts it on his shoulders and rejoices.

LORD, I thank you with all of my heart; because you heard the words that I spoke, I will sing your praise before the heavenly beings.

You will run away through my mountain valley, because the valley of the mountains will extend as far as Azal. You will flee, as you fled from the earthquake during the reign of King Uzziah of Judah. And so the LORD my God will come, and all his holy ones will be accompanying you."

I am writing to you, fathers, because you have known the one who has existed from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, because you have overcome the evil one.

I will make those who belong to the synagogue of Satan those who claim to be Jews and aren't, but are lying come and bow down at your feet. Then they will realize that I have loved you.

"When you have finished your harvest, reserve the tithe in the third year (the year of the tithe), and give the entire tithe to the descendants of Levi, to the foreigners, to the orphans, and to the widows, so they may eat and be satisfied in your cities.

Live like free people, and do not use your freedom as an excuse for doing evil. Instead, be God's servants.

Moreover, the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the sun's light will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days, when the LORD binds up the bruises of his people and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.

They turned over everyone in the city for destruction and executed them, including both men and women, young and old, and oxen, sheep, and donkeys.

Even until your old age, I am the one, and I'll carry you even until your gray hairs come. It is I who have created, and I who will carry, and it is I who will bear and save.

The dice is cast into someone's lap, but the outcome is from the LORD.

"The feet and toes that you saw, made partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, represent a divided kingdom. It will still have the strength of iron, in that you saw iron mixed with clay.

"Or if I were to send a pestilence against that land and pour out my anger in it with bloodshed, destroying both man and beast in it,

Give to the person who asks you for something, and do not turn away from the person who wants to borrow something from you."

He added, "I tell all of you with certainty, a prophet is not accepted in his hometown.

Look! It's Solomon's sedan chair, with 60 of the best soldiers in Israel surrounding it.

I will recount the gracious deeds of the LORD, the praiseworthy acts of the LORD, according to all the LORD has done for us yes, the great goodness to the house of Israel that he has granted them according to his mercy, according to the abundance of his gracious love.

Whoever refuses to hear the cry of the poor will also cry himself, but he won't be answered.

For the wisdom of this world is nonsense in God's sight. For it is written, "He catches the wise with their own trickery,"

I tell you, you will never get out of there until you pay back the last penny!"

The LORD detests those who are proud; truly they will not go unpunished.

Heal me, LORD, and I'll be healed; deliver me, and I'll be delivered, because you are my praise.

They told him that Jesus from Nazareth was coming by.

My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

Don't magnify yourself in the presence of a king, and don't pretend to be in the company of famous men,

My sin I acknowledged to you; my iniquity I did not hide. I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD." And you forgave the guilt of my sin! Interlude

A calyx is to be under the two branches that extend out of the stem; a calyx is to be under the next pair of branches that extend out of the stem; and a calyx is to be under the last pair of branches that extend out of the stem, and so for the six branches extending from the lamp stand.

The LORD is my strength and protector, for he has become my deliverer.

"Return to Hezekiah," he said, "and tell the Commander-in-Chief of my people: "This is what the LORD, the God of your ancestor David, says: "I've heard your prayer and I've observed your tears. Look! I'm healing you. Three days from now, you'll go visit the LORD's Temple.

"The LORD is slow to anger and abundant in faithful love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he won't acquit the guilty. He recalls the iniquity of fathers to the third and fourth generation.'

Here are some more proverbs by Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah, king of Judah, transcribed.

Pilate asked them, "Then what should I do with Jesus, who is called the Messiah?" They all said, "Let him be crucified!"

But the LORD was with Joseph. He became a very prosperous man while in the house of his Egyptian master,

To: Timothy, my genuine child in the faith. May grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Messiah Jesus, our Lord, be yours!

Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God. Once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and has written them down. We know that his testimony is true.

"How the faithful city has become a whore, she who used to be filled with justice! Righteousness used to reside within her, but now only murderers live there.

"As for me, this is my covenant with them," says the LORD. "And my Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, won't depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of your children's children, from now on and forever."

God called the dry ground "land," and he called the water that had come together "oceans." And God saw how good it was.

"How terrible it will be for you, Aruel, Aruel, the city where David encamped! Year after year, let your festivals run their cycle.

Look here, I have two daughters who are virgins. Let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them whatever you wish, only don't do anything to these men, because they're here under my protection."

As the angel was stretching out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD was grieved because of the calamity, so he told the angel who was afflicting the people, "Enough! Stay your hand!" So the angel of the LORD remained near the threshing floor that belonged to Araunah the Jebusite.

"And now, LORD, let what you have spoken concerning your servant and his household be done forever and let it be done just as you've promised.

During the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in fulfillment of the message from the LORD spoken by Jeremiah, the LORD prompted Cyrus, king of Persia, to make this proclamation throughout his entire kingdom, which was also released in written form:

"You know, don't you? You have heard, haven't you? Hasn't it been told you from the beginning? Haven't you understood from the foundations of the earth?

Why not? Because they did not pursue it on the basis of faith, but as if it were based on achievements. They stumbled over the stone that causes people to stumble.

I saw another sign in heaven. It was both spectacular and amazing. There were seven angels with the seven last plagues, with which God's wrath is completed.

"Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will spring up quickly; and your vindication will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will guard your back.

Jesus asked her, "Dear lady, why are you crying? Who are you looking for?" Thinking he was the gardener, she told him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him away."

Everyone who sees me mocks me; they gape at me with open mouths and shake their heads at me.

Do not lord it over the people entrusted to you, but be examples to the flock.

so I have come down to deliver them from their domination by the Egyptians and to bring them out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the territory of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have any sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.

Even boys grow tired and weary, and young men collapse and fall,

Do not allow what seems good to you to be spoken of as evil.

David got up and went down to the Wilderness of Paran. Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel of Judah, and the man was very rich. He had 3,000 sheep and 1,000 goats, and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

the people complained against the LORD and Moses. "Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?" they asked. "There's no food and water, and we're tired of this worthless bread."

Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the deepest darkness.

Then Jesus told the high priests, the Temple police, and the elders, who had come for him, "Have you come out with swords and clubs as if I were a bandit?

Although it is the smallest of all seeds, when it is fully grown it is larger than the garden plants and becomes a tree, and the birds in the sky come and nest in its branches."

yet their message goes out into all the world, and their words to the ends of the earth. He has set up a tent for the sun in the heavens,

"Therefore hear the message from the LORD, you scoffers who rule this people that are in Jerusalem.

Samuel said, "How can I go? Saul will hear about this and kill me!"

And so it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham and brought Lot out from the midst of the destruction when he overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.

Amazed beyond measure, they kept on saying, "He does everything well! He even makes deaf people hear and mute people talk!"

"Also, the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, and to bless the LORD'S name, observing the Sabbath without profaning it, and who hold fast my covenant

The seraphim stood above him. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he was flying.

"You are not to act unjustly in deciding a case or when measuring weight and quantity.

Zippor's son Balak saw everything that Israel had done to the Amorites.

They told him, "Lord, we want to be able to see!"

""I'm constantly being profaned among them. Her princes within her are like wolves tearing their prey apart. They shed blood, destroying souls, and make unjust gain.

Then he told her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace."

If one part suffers, every part suffers with it. If one part is praised, every part rejoices with it.

"When a righteous person turns from his righteous deeds and does evil, he'll die because of that evil. He'll die because of his unrighteous acts that he committed.

LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for you have done marvelous things, plans made long ago in faithfulness and truth.

Her children stand up and encourage her, as does her husband, who praises her:

Now you may ask yourselves, "How will we be able to discern that the LORD has not spoken?'

Those who weep while they plant will sing for joy while they harvest.

But if the unbelieving partner leaves, let him go. In such cases the brother or sister is not under obligation. God has called you to live in peace.

But the Pharisees and the experts in the Law rejected God's plan for themselves by refusing to be baptized by John.

Then he will say to them, "I tell all of you with certainty, since you didn't do it for one of the least important of these, you didn't do it for me.'

After agreeing to pay the workers one denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

Look! I've inscribed you on the palms of my hands, and your walls are forever before me.

if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the needs of afflicted souls, then your light will rise in darkness, and your night will be like noonday.

but instead it will serve as a reminder between us and you and between our generations after us, that we are to serve the LORD with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and peace offerings. That way your descendants will not say to our descendants in the future, "You have no allotment from the LORD."'

So then, those who suffer according to God's will should entrust their souls to their faithful Creator and continue to do what is good.

In response, Job said:

There is not yet a mediator between us, who would set his hand on the two of us,

Now therefore, as the LORD lives, who has established me and set me on the throne of my father David, and who has established a dynasty, just like he promised, Adonijah will surely be executed today."

"Whoever kidnaps a person, whether he has sold him or whether the victim is still in his possession, is certainly to be put to death.

Then the land will finally be pleased with its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time, the land will rest and take its Sabbaths.

by which the world at that time was deluged with water and destroyed.

Only you must not eat its blood. Pour it on the ground like water."

But Jesus told them, "You don't realize what you're asking. Can you drink from the cup that I'm going to drink from or be baptized with the baptism with which I'm going to be baptized?"

He reached a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun was setting. He found a stone there, used it for a pillow, and slept there for the night,

Then one of them said, "Flee for your lives! Don't look back or stop anywhere on the plain. Escape to the hills, or you'll be swept away!"

When Elisha entered the house, there was the youngster, dead and laid out on Elisha's bed!

All the Jews know how I lived from the earliest days of my youth with my own people and in Jerusalem.

David himself calls him "Lord,' so how can he be his son?" And the large crowd kept listening to him with delight.

Fools say to themselves "There is no God." They are corrupt and commit iniquity; not one of them practices what is good.

"You are not to use my name to deceive, thereby defiling the name of your God. I am the LORD.

until I make your enemies your footstool."'

"At that time," declares the LORD, "I'll be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people."

"Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be happy for her, all you who love her; rejoice with her in gladness, all you who mourn over her,

and it was not Adam who was deceived. It was the woman who was deceived and became disobedient,

He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord scoffs at them.

From Zebulun: Helon's son Eliab.

Then the Lord told him, "Remove your sandals from your feet, because the place where you are standing is holy ground.

The angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven

She must not consume anything extracted from grape vines, including wine or anything intoxicating, and she must not eat anything unclean, doing everything that I commissioned her to do."

When a ruler is listening to lies, all of his officials tend to become wicked.

Then he placed his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight and began praising God.

But when Herod's birthday celebration was held, the daughter of Herodias danced before the guests. She pleased Herod

Let the wise listen and increase their learning; let the person of understanding receive guidance

Nevertheless, the cities that belong to the descendants of Levi that is, the houses in the cities that belong to them are to belong to the descendants of Levi perpetually as part of their right of redemption.

Now the betrayer personally had given them a signal, saying, "The one I kiss is the man. Arrest him, and lead him safely away."

and say to the owner of the house, "The Teacher asks you, "Where is the room where I can eat the Passover meal with my disciples?"'

All the saints greet you.

and that the life of every living thing rests in his control, along with the breath of every living human being?

Then he lay down and went to sleep under the juniper tree. All of a sudden, there was an angel, who kept grabbing him and telling him, "Get up! Eat!"

"Therefore, look, I'm against the prophets," declares the LORD, "who steal my words from each other.

All the people continued to be amazed at the greatness of God. Indeed, everyone was astonished at all the things Jesus was doing. So he told his disciples,

This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "Don't listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you; they're giving you false hopes. They declare visions from their own minds they don't come from the LORD!

After Jehoshaphat had become wealthy and was enjoying abundant honor, he allied himself to Ahab.

You know when I rest and when I am active. You understand what I am thinking when I am distant from you.

Samuel returned, following Saul, and Saul worshipped the LORD.

May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be yours!

"Therefore, Israel, I'm going to judge you according to the behavior of each and every one of you," declares the Lord GOD. "So repent and turn from all your sins so that sin won't keep on being a stumbling block for you.

if I look at the sun when it shines or the moon as it rises in steady splendor,

They yelled at the descendants of Dan, who turned around to face Micah and asked, "What's wrong with you? You've assembled together"?"

From the half-tribe of Manasseh were allocated Taanach with its pasture lands and Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands, for a total of two cities.

When he goes into a house, say to its owner that the Teacher asks, "Where is my room where I can eat the Passover meal with my disciples?'

He keeps track of the number of stars, assigning names to all of them.

They passed their sons and daughters through fire, practiced divination, cast spells, and sold themselves to practice what the LORD considered to be evil, thereby provoking him.

The ship's crew pulled it up on deck and used ropes to brace the ship. Fearing that they would hit the large sandbank near Libya, they lowered the sail and drifted along.

Though he was crucified in weakness, he lives by God's power. We are weak with him, but by God's power we will live for you.

Don't rob the poor person because he is poor, and don't crush the helpless in court,

This is the message that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah. It was the eighteenth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar.

So learn from them, my son. There is no end to the crafting of many books, and too much study wearies the body.

"What is mankind, that he can be blameless? Or does being born of a woman mean he'll be in the right?

Three cups shaped like almond blossoms with calyxes and flowers are to be on one branch and three cups shaped like almond blossoms with calyxes and flowers are to be on the other branch, and so for the six branches extending from the lamp stand.

So ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest."

Ahaz was 20 years old when he became king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for sixteen years. He did not practice what the LORD considered to be right, as had his ancestor David.

A violent man entices his companion and leads him on a path that is not good.

A man in the crowd answered him, "Teacher, I brought my son to you. He has a spirit that won't let him talk.

The king unseated the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense in the high places throughout the cities of Judah and in the environs surrounding Jerusalem, including those who had been burning incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the constellations, and to every star in the heavens.

Now Abram had become quite wealthy in livestock, silver, and gold.

Your descendants are going to become like the dust of the earth and spread out to the west, east, north, and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.

He swore an oath by the one who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and everything in it, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it: "There will be no more delay.

So Paul and Barnabas shook the dust off their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.

He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned 52 years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.

I do not need to write to you any further about the ministry to the saints.

Those who know your name will trust you, for you have not forsaken those who seek you, LORD.

God causes the lonely to dwell in families. He leads prisoners into prosperity, but rebels live on parched land.

Abraham hurried into the tent and told Sarah, "Quick! Take three measures of the best flour, knead it, and make some flat bread."

When those who were around Jesus saw what was about to take place, they asked, "Lord, should we attack with our swords?"

"Why have we fasted,' they ask, "but you do not see? "Why have we humbled ourselves,' they ask, "but you take no notice?'" "Look! On your fast day you serve your own interest and oppress all your workers.

So I will punish him and let him go."

"But as for you, you whitewash with lies; all of you are worthless quacks.

The man replied, "A hundred jars of olive oil.' The manager told him, "Get your bill. Sit down quickly and write "50."'

I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart, I will declare all your wonderful deeds.

"The Lord told my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet."'?

"Now as for you, my son Solomon, get to know the God of your father. Serve him with a sound heart and a devoted soul, because the LORD is searching every heart, every plan and thought. He will be found by you, assuming you are seeking him, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you forever.

In all their distress he wasn't distressed, but the angel of his presence saved them; in his acts of love and in his acts of pity he redeemed them; he carried them and lifted them up all the days of old.

This entire land will be a desolation and a waste, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

so that from the sun's rising to the west people may know that there is none besides me. "I am the LORD, and there is no other."

Let me praise the name of God with a song that I may magnify him with thanksgiving.

No Satanic plan against Jacob nor divination against Israel can ever prevail. When the time is right, it is to be asked about Jacob and Israel, "What has God accomplished?'

During the thirty-eighth year of the reign of Azariah, king of Judah, Jeroboam's son Zachariah began a six-month reign in Samaria.

Then those in Judea must flee to the mountains, those inside the city must leave it, and those in the countryside must not go into it,

"If there's a messenger appointed to mediate for Job one out of a thousand to represent the man's integrity on his behalf,

When the LORD does for your majesty all the good that he promised concerning you and appoints you Commander-in-Chief over Israel,

Now, we do not belong to those who turn back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.

So I sent for you immediately, and it was good of you to come. All of us are here now in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has ordered you to say."

In response, Job said:

The king also told Abiathar the priest, "Go home to Anathoth. You deserve to die, but I won't kill you today, because you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before my father David and because you shared all the troubles that my father went through."

They put poison in my food, in my thirst they forced me to drink vinegar.

This is what the LORD says: "Where is your mother's certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look! It's because of your sins that you were sold, and because of your transgressions that your mother was sent away.

"Look, I've called Uri's son Bezalel, grandson of Hur from Judah's tribe

The LORD will complete what his purpose is for me. LORD, your gracious love is eternal; do not abandon your personal work in me. To the Music Director: A Davidic Song

"If you aren't careful to observe all the words of this Law that have been written in this book, instructing you to fear this glorious and awesome name of the LORD your God,

What will you say when the LORD appoints over you as your head those whom you taught to be your allies? Pain will seize you like that seizing a woman about to give birth, will it not?

As long as I can breathe; as long as God's breath is in my nostrils,

Suddenly, the glory of the LORD appeared at the Tent of Meeting to all of the Israelis. "How long will this people keep on spurning me and refusing to trust me, despite all the miracles that I've done among them?" the LORD asked Moses.

"He will deliver you through six calamities; and calamity won't touch you throughout the seventh.

The second angel poured his bowl into the sea. It became like the blood of a dead body, and every living thing in the sea died.

Then Moses reported all the words of the people back to the LORD. The LORD told Moses, "Look, I'm coming to you in a thick cloud, so that the people may listen when I speak with you and always believe you." Moses reported the words of the people to the LORD.

and said, "Sir, have mercy on my son, because he is an epileptic and suffers terribly. Often he falls into fire and often into water.

The LORD told Moses,

Sailing past it with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near the town of Lasea.

How long? LORD, will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Many of them believed, including a large number of prominent Greek women and men.

Then they told him, "Sir, give us this bread all the time."

Pleasant words are honey from a honeycomb sweet to the soul and healing for the body.

On days when I am afraid, I put my trust in you.

He is my God, my strong stone in him I will find my refuge my shield, the strength of my salvation, my high tower, my way of escape, and the one who is saving me. You will save me from violence.

"If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he is to be put to death, and you are also to kill the animal.

But when many people saw them leave and recognized them, they hurried on foot from all the towns and arrived ahead of them.

Whoever mistreats his father and alienates his mother is a son who brings both shame and disrespect.

The reputation of the righteous leads to blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

Don't answer a fool according to his foolishness, or you will be just like him.

Isaac addressed his father Abraham: "My father!" "I'm here, my son," Abraham replied. Isaac asked, "The fire and the wood are here, but where's the lamb for the burnt offering?"

"The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to everything he tells you. Any person who will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.'

After these things occurred, certain officials approached me and said "The people of Israel, the priests, and the descendants of Levi have not separated themselves from the people of the lands or from the detestable behavior of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites,

To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? To children just weaned from milk? To those just taken from the breast?

So they had their father drink wine that night, and the older one had sexual relations with her father, but he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.

Who can take me to court and be reconciled to me? All of heaven is mine.

This message from the LORD came to me:

Whoever pursues righteousness and gracious love finds life, righteousness, and honor.

Be strong, and let your heart be courageous, all you who put your hope in the LORD. A Davidic instruction.

You, your majesty, king of kings to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength, and the glory,

she told Abraham, "Throw out this slave girl, along with her son, because this slave's son will never be a co-heir with my son Isaac!"

A mixed multitude also went up with them, along with a very large number of livestock, including sheep and cattle.

because the sun had stopped shining, and the curtain in the sanctuary was torn in two.

The fifth lottery went to the tribe of Asher according to its families.

"You are not to marry a woman and then have sexual relations with her sister as a rival when your wife is still alive.

Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and it will crush anyone on whom it falls."

So Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the Law, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?"

When his workers started digging another well, those herdsmen quarreled about that one, too, so Isaac named it Sitnah.

and whoever wants to be first among you must be a slave to everyone,

overthrowing those cities, all of the plain, and everyone who lived in the cities. He also destroyed the plants that grew out of the ground.

The foundations of the city wall were decorated with all kinds of gems: The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,

How deep are your thoughts, God! How great is their number!

The first man came from the dust of the earth; the second man came from heaven.

Sheol is naked before God and Abaddon has no clothes.

I'll give them the ability to know me, for I am the LORD. They will be my people, and I will be their God when they return to me with all their heart.

However, on some points I have written to you rather boldly, both as a reminder to you and because of the grace given me by God

He asked them, "What are you discussing with each other as you're walking along?" They stood still and looked gloomy.

I am allowed to do what I want with my own money, am I not? Or are you envious because I'm generous?'

they engaged in war against King Bera of Sodom, King Birsha of Gomorrah, King Shinab of Admah, King Shemeber of Zeboiim, along with the king of Bela (which was also known as Zoar).

I've wiped away your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist. Return to me; because I've redeemed you.

Be gracious to me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eyes have been consumed by my grief along with my soul and my body.

Since a plot against the man has been reported to me, I'm sending him to you at once, and I've also ordered his accusers to present their charges against him before you."

but his mother said, "Absolutely not! He must be named John."

The faithful man will prosper with blessings, but whoever is in a hurry to get rich will not escape punishment.

They abandoned all of the commands given by the LORD their God, crafted for themselves cast images of two calves, constructed an Asherah, worshipped all of the stars in heaven, and served Baal.

It is to be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead, so that you may speak about the instruction of the LORD; for the LORD brought you out of Egypt with a strong show of force.

All the tithes from cattle and flocks that pass under the measuring rod are sacred to the LORD.

"God speaks time and time again but nobody notices

The king sat down at his place as before, in the seat by the wall. Jonathan stood while Abner sat next to Saul, but David's place was empty.

"But then a spirit approached, stood in front of the LORD, and said, "I will entice him.'

If any of the flesh of the ordination ram or any of the bread is left until morning, you are to burn what is left with fire. Because it's holy, what remains is not to be eaten.

But all these things are only the beginning of the birth pains."

Exonerating the wicked and condemning the righteous are both detestable to the LORD.

I delight to do your will, my God. Your Law is part of my inner being."

An open rebuke is better than unspoken love.

"Celebrate the Festival of Tents for seven days after you harvest from your threshing floor and your wine press.

I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters," declares the Lord Almighty.

"How terrible it will be for the one who enacts unjust decrees, for those who write oppressive laws that they have prescribed

A ruin! A ruin! I'm bringing about ruin!' But this also will not happen until he who has authority over it arrives, because I'll give it to him."

"His master told him, "Well done, good and trustworthy servant! Since you've been trustworthy with a small amount, I'll put you in charge of a large amount. Come and share your master's joy!'

Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he sleep at night near your feeding trough?

Afterwards, Joshua read all the words of the Law both the blessings and the curses according to everything written in the Book of the Law.

Work may be done for six days, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does work on the Sabbath is certainly to die.

He practiced what the LORD considered to be evil, though not like the kings of Israel who had preceded him.

Then Samuel said, "Bring Agag king of Amalek to me." Agag came to him in fetters, saying to himself, "Surely the bitterness of death is past."

Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in the ways of this world, he must become a fool to become really wise.

Samson governed Israel for twenty years during the Philistine domination.

They told Moses, "You speak to us and we will listen, but don't let God speak with us, or we may die.

In the same way, it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost."

Abram listened to Sarai's suggestion, so Abram's wife Sarai took her Egyptian servant, Hagar, and gave her as a wife to her husband Abram. This took place ten years after Abram had settled in the land of Canaan.

"Now as for you, Son of Man, I've established you as a sentinel for the house of Israel. So whenever you hear a message from me, you are to warn the people from me.

this stone that I've erected in the form of a pillar will be God's house, and I'll give you a tenth of everything that you give to me."

"But when a person dies and wastes away, when a person breathes his last, where will he be?

"It will come about at that time," declares the LORD, "that you will address me as "My husband,' and you will no longer call me "My master'.

They began discussing this among themselves. "If we say, "From heaven,' he'll say, "Then why didn't you believe him?'

But after a while, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

Who among you fears the LORD, obeying the voice of his servant, who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD, and rely upon his God.

"I must look insignificant to you! How can I answer you? I'm speechless.

But Moses implored the LORD his God: "LORD, why are you angry with your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a show of force?