The one who speaks in a tongue builds himself up, but the one who prophesies builds up the church.

For this reason also I wrote you: to test you to see if you are obedient in everything.

So in all our distress and affliction, we were reassured about you, brothers and sisters, through your faith.

Tell them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, to be generous givers, sharing with others.

If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.

maintain yourselves in the love of God, while anticipating the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that brings eternal life.

Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand!

Anxiety in a person’s heart weighs him down, but an encouraging word brings him joy.

The Lord continued, “Now break the jar in front of those who have come here with you.

From the city he took a eunuch who was in charge of the soldiers, five of the king’s advisers who were discovered in the city, an official army secretary who drafted citizens for military service, and sixty citizens from the people of the land who were discovered in the city.

In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps of grain and loading them onto donkeys, along with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, and bringing them to Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them on the day that they sold these provisions.

They will bring back all your countrymen from all the nations as an offering to the Lord. They will bring them on horses, in chariots, in wagons, on mules, and on camels to my holy hill Jerusalem,” says the Lord, “just as the Israelites bring offerings to the Lord’s temple in ritually pure containers.

Jerusalem will bring me joy, and my people will bring me happiness. The sound of weeping or cries of sorrow will never be heard in her again.

When those days were completed, the king then provided a seven-day banquet for all the people who were present in Susa the citadel, for those of highest standing to the most lowly. It was held in the court located in the garden of the royal palace.

You have been the object of Israel’s hopes. You have saved them when they were in trouble. Why have you become like a resident foreigner in the land? Why have you become like a traveler who only stops in to spend the night?

Every scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

In the month Ziv of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign the foundation was laid for the Lord’s temple.

Jehoshaphat stood before the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem at the Lord’s temple, in front of the new courtyard.

ה (He) Those who once feasted on delicacies are now starving to death in the streets. Those who grew up wearing expensive clothes are now dying amid garbage.

They traveled from the wilderness of Zin and camped in Dophkah.