Genesis 8:1-22
8:1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.
8:2 The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.
8:3 The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.
8:4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat.
8:5 The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.
8:6 At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
8:7 and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.
8:8 Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.
8:9 The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark.
8:10 He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.
8:11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
8:12 He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.
8:13 In Noah’s six hundred and first year, in the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
8:14 And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.
8:15 Then God spoke to Noah and said,
8:16 “Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
8:17 Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!”
8:18 Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives.
8:19 Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups.
8:20 Noah built an altar to the Lord. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
8:21 And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.
8:22 “While the earth continues to exist,
planting time and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
and day and night will not cease.”
Genesis 2:9
2:9 The
Lord God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil,
every tree that was pleasing to look at
and good for food. (Now
the tree of life
and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
were in the middle of the orchard.)
Genesis 3:10-12
3:10 The man replied,
“I heard you moving about
in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”
3:11 And the
Lord God
said, “Who told you that you were naked?
Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
3:12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave
me some fruit
from the tree and I ate it.”
Genesis 4:16-17
4:16 So Cain went out from the presence of the
Lord and lived in the land of Nod,
east of Eden.
The Beginning of Civilization
4:17 Cain had marital relations with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was building a city, and he named the city after his son Enoch.
Acts 9:16
9:16 For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.”
Acts 13:46
13:46 Both Paul and Barnabas replied courageously,
“It was necessary to speak the word of God
to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy
of eternal life, we
are turning to the Gentiles.
Acts 13:50
13:50 But the Jews incited
the God-fearing women of high social standing and the prominent men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out
of their region.
Acts 14:5-6
14:5 When both the Gentiles and the Jews (together with their rulers) made
an attempt to mistreat
them and stone them,
14:6 Paul and Barnabas
learned about it
and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra
and Derbe
and the surrounding region.
Acts 21:27-31
21:27 When the seven days were almost over,
the Jews from the province of Asia
who had seen him in the temple area
stirred up the whole crowd
and seized
him,
21:28 shouting, “Men of Israel,
help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law,
and this sanctuary!
Furthermore
he has brought Greeks into the inner courts of the temple
and made this holy place ritually unclean!”
21:29 (For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him previously, and
they assumed Paul had brought him into the inner temple courts.)
21:30 The whole city was stirred up,
and the people rushed together.
They seized
Paul and dragged him out of the temple courts,
and immediately the doors were shut.
21:31 While they were trying
to kill him, a report
was sent up
to the commanding officer
of the cohort
that all Jerusalem was in confusion.
Acts 22:21-24
22:21 Then
he said to me, ‘Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
The Roman Commander Questions Paul
22:22 The crowd was listening to him until he said this. Then they raised their voices and shouted, “Away with this man from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live!”
22:23 While they were screaming and throwing off their cloaks and tossing dust in the air,
22:24 the commanding officer ordered Paul to be brought back into the barracks. He told them to interrogate Paul by beating him with a lash so that he could find out the reason the crowd was shouting at Paul in this way.
Ephesians 3:1-8
Paul's Relationship to the Divine Mystery
3:1 For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles –
3:2 if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you,
3:3 that by revelation the divine secret was made known to me, as I wrote before briefly.
3:4 When reading this, you will be able to understand my insight into this secret of Christ.
3:5 Now this secret was not disclosed to people in former generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,
3:6 namely, that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.
3:7 I became a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the exercise of his power.
3:8 To me – less than the least of all the saints – this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ
Ephesians 3:1
Paul's Relationship to the Divine Mystery
3:1 For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles –
Ephesians 2:16
2:16 and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by which the hostility has been killed.