Some time after this, Joseph was told, “Your father is weaker.” So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

This will occur if you obey the Lord your God, keeping all His commands I am giving you today, doing what is right in the sight of the Lord your God.

The Benjaminites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.

The Israelites asked, “Tell us, how did this outrage occur?”

The war between the house of Saul and the house of David was long and drawn out, with David growing stronger and the house of Saul becoming weaker.

The sons of Ram, Jerahmeel’s firstborn: Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.

They are like a lion eager to tear,
like a young lion lurking in ambush.

a heart that plots wicked schemes,
feet eager to run to evil,

The words of Agur son of Jakeh. The oracle.

The man’s oration to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal:

This is what the Lord God says:

It will not happen; it will not occur.

Sheol below is eager to greet your coming.
He stirs up the spirits of the departed for you—
all the rulers of the earth.
He makes all the kings of the nations
rise from their thrones.

The past events have indeed happened.
Now I declare new events;
I announce them to you before they occur.”

They are well-fed, eager stallions,
each neighing after someone else’s wife.

So I am eager to preach the good news to you also who are in Rome.

But even more, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are necessary.

Therefore, my brothers, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in other languages.

My eager expectation and hope is that I will not be ashamed about anything, but that now as always, with all boldness, Christ will be highly honored in my body, whether by life or by death.

For this reason, I am very eager to send him so that you may rejoice when you see him again and I may be less anxious.

He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for Himself a people for His own possession, eager to do good works.

Husbands, in the same way, live with your wives with an understanding of their weaker nature yet showing them honor as coheirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

Dear friends, although I was eager to write you about the salvation we share, I found it necessary to write and exhort you to contend for the faith that was delivered to the saints once for all.