Laban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay with me.”

Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find any.

Anyone who is left in your family will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread. He will say: Please appoint me to some priestly office so I can have a piece of bread to eat.’”

If he retreats to some city, all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will drag its stones into the valley until not even a pebble can be found there.”

But when I leave you, the Spirit of the Lord may carry you off to some place I don’t know. Then when I go report to Ahab and he doesn’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared the Lord from my youth.

But his servants approached and said to him, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more should you do it when he tells you, ‘Wash and be clean’?”

He will spread out his arms in the middle of it,
as a swimmer spreads out his arms to swim.
His pride will be brought low,
along with the trickery of his hands.

Again he measured off a third of a mile, and it was a river that I could not cross on foot. For the water had risen; it was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be crossed on foot.

The same day some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came up to Him and questioned Him:

He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else:

As they were traveling down the road, they came to some water. The eunuch said, “Look, there’s water! What would keep me from being baptized?”

To some we are an aroma of death leading to death, but to others, an aroma of life leading to life. And who is competent for this?

I don’t want to seem as though I am trying to terrify you with my letters.

To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.