I am also aware that you have persisted steadfastly, endured much for the sake of my name, and have not grown weary.

Have mercy on me, for I am in distress! My eyes grow dim from suffering. I have lost my strength.

The sovereign Lord has spoken to me clearly; I have not rebelled, I have not turned back.

And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

I absolutely hate them, they have become my enemies!

I will give you thanks, for you answered me, and have become my deliverer.

You also have done all these things, says the Lord, and I have spoken to you over and over again. But you have not listened! You have refused to respond when I called you to repent!

To do this you must hold firmly to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck in regard to the faith.

“Now, if you have shown loyalty and integrity when you made Abimelech king, if you have done right to Jerub-Baal and his family, if you have properly repaid him –

Saul replied, “I have sinned. Come back, my son David. I won’t harm you, for you treated my life with value this day. I have behaved foolishly and have made a very terrible mistake!”

For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me,

For I have received everything, and I have plenty. I have all I need because I received from Epaphroditus what you sent – a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, very pleasing to God.

The men are shepherds; they take care of livestock. They have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’

Jesus said to him, “Foxes have dens, and the birds in the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

Jesus said to him, “Foxes have dens and the birds in the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” Mary replied, “They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have put him!”

For though you may have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, because I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

Make us happy in proportion to the days you have afflicted us, in proportion to the years we have experienced trouble!

I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust;

You are clean already because of the word that I have spoken to you.