Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God for help, and wander about for lack of food?

The heart of the wise makes his speech judicious and adds persuasiveness to his lips.

This is the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.

The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. read more. And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, for "'In him we live and move and have our being';as even some of your own poets have said, "'For we are indeed his offspring.' Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.

And when he had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying: "Since through you we enjoy much peace, and since by your foresight, most excellent Felix, reforms are being made for this nation,

And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

Still Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.

And the LORD had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.

And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen.

The LORD kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up.

Why should you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? After he had dealt severely with them, did they not send the people away, and they departed?

But the king said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the LORD has said to him, 'Curse David,' who then shall say, 'Why have you done so?'"

Again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, "Go, number Israel and Judah."

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let them say among the nations, "The LORD reigns!"

He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away.

But he is unchangeable, and who can turn him back? What he desires, that he does.

This God--his way is perfect; the word of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

You have given me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand supported me, and your gentleness made me great.

The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations.

from where he sits enthroned he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth, he who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds.

For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!

My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me.

Surely the wrath of man shall praise you; the remnant of wrath you will put on like a belt.

But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children, to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments. read more. The LORD has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all.

You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth

The young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God. When the sun rises, they steal away and lie down in their dens. read more. Man goes out to his work and to his labor until the evening. O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. Here is the sea, great and wide, which teems with creatures innumerable, living things both small and great. There go the ships, and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it. These all look to you, to give them their food in due season. When you give it to them, they gather it up; when you open your hand, they are filled with good things. When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods. Whatever the LORD pleases, he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps. read more. He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD.

The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps.

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.

Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand.

Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand.

A man's steps are from the LORD; how then can man understand his way?

The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; he turns it wherever he will.

The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; he turns it wherever he will.

The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; he turns it wherever he will.

He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding;

that you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. read more. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.

he has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.

And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them.

The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.

But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled.

for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,

for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.

to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.

Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness."

for "'In him we live and move and have our being';as even some of your own poets have said, "'For we are indeed his offspring.'

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."

For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. read more. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

if we are faithless, he remains faithful--for he cannot deny himself.

He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"-- yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. read more. Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that."

While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease."

Now Joseph was governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.

They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, but all the people of Israel had light where they lived.

There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever will be again. But not a dog shall growl against any of the people of Israel, either man or beast, that you may know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.

Then the king said to Zadok, "Carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me back and let me see both it and his dwelling place. But if he says, 'I have no pleasure in you,' behold, here I am, let him do to me what seems good to him."

But the king said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the LORD has said to him, 'Curse David,' who then shall say, 'Why have you done so?'" And David said to Abishai and to all his servants, "Behold, my own son seeks my life; how much more now may this Benjaminite! Leave him alone, and let him curse, for the LORD has told him to. read more. It may be that the LORD will look on the wrong done to me, and that the LORD will repay me with good for his cursing today."

I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me. Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?

Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust? Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese? read more. You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit.

You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the work of your hands.

that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?

He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing. He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not split open under them. read more. He covers the face of the full moon and spreads over it his cloud. He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness. The pillars of heaven tremble and are astounded at his rebuke.

Why do you contend against him, saying, 'He will answer none of man's words'?

"Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements--surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? read more. On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? "Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb, when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band, and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors, and said, 'Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed'? "Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place, that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it? It is changed like clay under the seal, and its features stand out like a garment.

"Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further."

"I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. 'Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. read more. 'Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me.' I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host.

The LORDlooks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man; from where he sits enthroned he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth, read more. he who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds. The king is not saved by his great army; a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.

I have seen a wicked, ruthless man, spreading himself like a green laurel tree. But he passed away, and behold, he was no more; though I sought him, he could not be found. read more. Mark the blameless and behold the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.

Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand.

No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the LORD.

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;

Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name, by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing.

But now, O LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.

Do you not fear me? declares the LORD. Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it.

Righteous are you, O LORD, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?

And the satraps, the prefects, the governors, and the king's counselors gathered together and saw that the fire had not had any power over the bodies of those men. The hair of their heads was not singed, their cloaks were not harmed, and no smell of fire had come upon them.

and you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. And you shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will."

"For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth.

And they said to one another, "Come, let us cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.

Jesus said, "Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.

a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel."

But not a hair of your head will perish.

for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.

Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word.

for "'In him we live and move and have our being';as even some of your own poets have said, "'For we are indeed his offspring.'

And when he had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying: "Since through you we enjoy much peace, and since by your foresight, most excellent Felix, reforms are being made for this nation,

Therefore I urge you to take some food. For it will give you strength, for not a hair is to perish from the head of any of you."

And why not do evil that good may come?--as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.

More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me like this?" Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? read more. What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory--

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,

And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people dwell, so that no swarms of flies shall be there, that you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.

Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you. When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the LORD, over many waters.

Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

The LORD is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made.

Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for he was but one when I called him, that I might bless him and multiply him.

The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the LORD of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, declares the LORD of hosts.'"

"Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.

"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

But Jesus answered them, "My Father is working until now, and I am working."

And when he had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying: "Since through you we enjoy much peace, and since by your foresight, most excellent Felix, reforms are being made for this nation,

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

and Jesus who is called Justus. These are the only men of the circumcision among my fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me.

In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,

And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,