“Go and tell Hananiah that the Lord says, ‘You have indeed broken the wooden yoke. But you have only succeeded in replacing it with an iron one!

Violence has grown into a staff that supports wickedness. Not one of them will be left – not from their crowd, not from their wealth, not from their prominence.

I will give it to foreigners as loot, to the world’s wicked ones as plunder, and they will desecrate it.

The allotment you set apart to the Lord will be eight and a quarter miles in length and three and one-third miles in width.

“You, O king, were watching as a great statue – one of impressive size and extraordinary brightness – was standing before you. Its appearance caused alarm.

“How great are his signs! How mighty are his wonders! His kingdom will last forever, and his authority continues from one generation to the next.”

No one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple of the Lord anymore. So the priests, those who serve the Lord, are in mourning.

Why do you force me to witness injustice? Why do you put up with wrongdoing? Destruction and violence confront me; conflict is present and one must endure strife.

Then I asked one nearby, “What are these, sir?” The angelic messenger who replied to me said, “I will show you what these are.”

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears had better listen!

Now the ones who had arrested Jesus led him to Caiaphas, the high priest, in whose house the experts in the law and the elders had gathered.

Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What should I do? I will send my one dear son; perhaps they will respect him.’

But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.

The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

This one heaven must receive until the time all things are restored, which God declared from times long ago through his holy prophets.

This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

But Saul was trying to destroy the church; entering one house after another, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.

and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.