The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.

But the aim of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.

Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers and sisters, or a vine produce figs? Neither can a salt water spring produce fresh water.

A violent person entices his neighbor, and leads him down a path that is terrible.

They must not marry a widow or a divorcee, but they may marry a virgin from the house of Israel or a widow who is a priest’s widow.

A remnant will come back, a remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

Suppose a prophet or one who foretells by dreams should appear among you and show you a sign or wonder,

You are to make this into a sacred anointing oil, a perfumed compound, the work of a perfumer. It will be sacred anointing oil.

When she bore a son, Moses named him Gershom, for he said, “I have become a resident foreigner in a foreign land.”

He then handed out to each Israelite man and woman a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake.

I will sing to my love – a song to my lover about his vineyard. My love had a vineyard on a fertile hill.

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

So too the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it has great pretensions. Think how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze.

and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.

you built yourself a chamber and put up a pavilion in every public square.

The one bound to a wife should not seek divorce. The one released from a wife should not seek marriage.

until I come and take you to a land just like your own – a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways.