One who listens to life-giving rebukes
will be at home among the wise.

So then, as through one trespass there is condemnation for everyone, so also through one righteous act there is life-giving justification for everyone.

So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.

Do this so that you may fear the Lord your God all the days of your life by keeping all His statutes and commands I am giving you, your son, and your grandson, and so that you may have a long life.

Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life that this man expects me to cure a man of his skin disease? Think it over and you will see that he is only picking a fight with me.”

Though we are slaves, our God has not abandoned us in our slavery. He has extended grace to us in the presence of the Persian kings, giving us new life, so that we can rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.