"While doing this very thing, as I was going to Damascus with authority and complete power from the chief priests,

He asked them how they were doing. Then he said, "Is your aging father well, the one you spoke about? Is he still alive?"

You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the Lord's sight.

Well, it just so happened that while your servant was doing this and that, he disappeared." The king of Israel said to him, "Your punishment is already determined by your own testimony."

Then Jeremiah answered, "You will not be handed over to them. Please obey the Lord by doing what I have been telling you. Then all will go well with you and your life will be spared.

that you abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what has been strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from doing these things, you will do well. Farewell.

But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.