A psalm of David. The Lord owns the earth and all it contains, the world and all who live in it.

Burn a third of it in the fire inside the city when the days of your siege are completed. Take a third and slash it with a sword all around the city. Scatter a third to the wind, and I will unleash a sword behind them.

I ate no choice food; no meat or wine came to my lips, nor did I anoint myself with oil until the end of those three weeks.

As he was saying these things, a ruler came, bowed low before him, and said, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her and she will live."

No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and the tear becomes worse.

He saw them straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. As the night was ending, he came to them walking on the sea, for he wanted to pass by them.

"When I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many baskets full of pieces did you pick up?" They replied, "Seven."

For we have all received from his fullness one gracious gift after another.

Now if their transgression means riches for the world and their defeat means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full restoration bring?

For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: A partial hardening has happened to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.

Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

and I know that when I come to you I will come in the fullness of Christ's blessing.

for the earth and its abundance are the Lord's.

But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ -- the things in heaven and the things on earth.

Now the church is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

I pray that according to the wealth of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God -- a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ's full stature.

For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in the Son

For in him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form,

For in him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form, and you have been filled in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.